- Bookseller: Austin's Antiquarian Books
- Seller Inventory #: 6960
- Format: Octavo,
- Book condition: Very good in very good price-clipped jacket.
- Edition: Sixth printing.
- Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers,
- Place: New York:
- Date published: (1980).
Book Description
New York: : Harper & Row Publishers, , (1980). . Sixth printing. . Octavo,. Very good in very good price-clipped jacket. . blue cloth 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.
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.
