- Bookseller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 6649
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
- Place: Boston
- Date published: 1954
Book Description
Boston Houghton Mifflin 1954 Hardcover First edition SIGNED. 58pp. Octavo [25 cm] Original red cloth with gilt title to the front cover and spine. Glassine dust jacket. Outer cardboard slipcase. Spine of book is lightly sunned. Slipcase shows some age toning, rubbing and slight shelfwear at edges; else very good. The glassine wrapper is torn. Internally fine. Signed by Archibald Macleish on the half-title.
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rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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.
gilt : The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example.
sunned : The affected portion of the book has been discolored from exposure to the sun.
glassine wrapper : a transparent or translucent paper covering often used as a protective covering outside of the dust jacket.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
shelfwear : Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
