- Bookseller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 7670
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: Later printing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Vanguard Press
- Place: New York
Book Description
New York Vanguard Press Hardcover Later printing Quarto [30.5 cm] 1/4 red cloth with black illustrated boards. Fine/Near fine. Jacket price clipped. SIGNED by the good doctor on the verso of the front free endsheet.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound 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
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.
verso : The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
quarto : A term used generally to describe the approximate size of a book, a book that is about 10" to 12" tall and roughly squarish in shape. The term is based on the size of paper traditionally used by book printers which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
