- Bookseller: Austin's Antiquarian Books
- Seller Inventory #: 6724
- Format: Octavo,
- Book condition: Very good in good jacket. Remainder mark on bottom and front edge. Small soil spot on top edge. Jacket fainly yellowed and sc
- Illustrator: Black and white photographs.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Simon and Schuster,
- Place: New York:
- Date published: (1985).
Book Description
New York:: Simon and Schuster, , (1985). . First edition.. Octavo,. Very good in good jacket. Remainder mark on bottom and front edge. Small soil spot on top edge. Jacket fainly yellowed and scuffed. . Black and white photographs.. black cloth and gray boards,gilt, in dust jacket.
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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.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
