- Bookseller: Caliban Books ABAA-ILAB
- Seller Inventory #: 0011496
- Book condition:
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: NY MacMillan 1941.
Book Description
NY MacMillan 1941.. First edition. Large 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. Fine/Very Good, bit faded and edgeworn.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. 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 folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
