- Bookseller: Glenn Books
- Seller Inventory #: 001172
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Nearly Fine
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Edition: First Edition.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1937
Book Description
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Silver designs bright. Neat ink signature and small bookplate on front pastedown. 314pp.. First Edition.. Black Cloth. Nearly Fine/No Jacket. Octavo.
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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.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
