- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 2871
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: P. Blakiston's Son & Co.
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1936
Book Description
New York: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear, touch of sunning to spine, marks from prior bookplate on front pastedown, note from publisher tipped in at ffep, penciled note on ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. 8vo. 739pp. This was likely a review copy given to Harvard entomologist Carroll Williams, he noted, "Birds neglected some what in this book." Overall, a very nice copy.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
spine : The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf. Also known as the back.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
tipped in : used to describe something which has been glued into a book, for example a bookplate.
pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book.
shelf wear : Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
