- Bookseller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 3333
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Harlin Quist
- Place: [New York]
- Date published: 1966
Book Description
[New York] Harlin Quist 1966 Hardcover First edition 46pp. Octavo [21 cm] Tan cloth with black stamped title on backstrip. Very good / Very good. Small foil sticker at foot of jacket's spine. Light sunning to jacket's spine and the top edge of the rear panel. Minor rubbing to corners. Jacket is price clipped. Illustrations by Charles Slackman.
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rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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.
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.
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.
