- Bookseller: Austin's Antiquarian Books
- Seller Inventory #: 7965
- Format: Octavo,
- Book condition: Good or better in good jacket. Corners bumped. Remainder mark along bottom edge. Jacket moderately edgeworn, scuffed and pric
- Illustrator: Illustrated with color photographs and drawings by Marie Ivey Menzietti.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: The Viking Press,
- Place: New York:
- Date published: (1973).
Book Description
New York: : The Viking Press, , (1973). . First edition. . Octavo,. Good or better in good jacket. Corners bumped. Remainder mark along bottom edge. Jacket moderately edgeworn, scuffed and price-clipped.. Illustrated with color photographs and drawings by Marie Ivey Menzietti.. green cloth, gilt, in dust jacket.
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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.
remainder mark : Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on the edges of the text block in the form of a marker stripe or a stamp of some sort.
Remainder marks considerably lower the overall collectibility of a title, although, in some cases, they are acceptable to a collector.
bumped : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
