- Bookseller: Austin's Antiquarian Books
- Seller Inventory #: 6685
- Format: Octavo,
- Book condition: Good in good jacket. Light soil. Front free fly creased. Soil in margin of frontispiece. One inch tear in jacket cover, an
- Illustrator: Illustrated.
- Publisher: E.P. Dutton,
- Place: New York:
- Date published: (1978).
Book Description
New York:: E.P. Dutton, , (1978).. Octavo,. Good in good jacket. Light soil. Front free fly creased. Soil in margin of frontispiece. One inch tear in jacket cover, and some edgewear. Jacket is price-clipped. Illustrated.. white cloth and blue blind stamped boards, gilt, in dust jacket.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
octavo : A book whose page size is approximately 12 inches by 9 inches. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been cut into eight pages.
gilt : The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example.
frontispiece : A portrait or illustration on the page opposing the title page.
price-clipped : The portion of the dust jacket flap where the publisher prints the suggested price has been cut away. Usually this is a clean 1-2" diagonal cut made with scissors.
e.p. : When used to describe a book, the endpaper(s), The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
