- Bookseller: Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc.
- Seller Inventory #: 2514
- Format: Cloth
- Book condition: Very Good + in Very Good + DJ
- Edition: y First American edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Boston Book and Art Shop
- Place: Boston
- Date published: (1954)
Book Description
Boston: Boston Book and Art Shop. (1954). y First American edition. Cloth. Very Good + in Very Good + DJ. 4to, 292pp. Index. Illus. with a frontis. and 81 plates. Brick cloth, gilt. D.j. (minor chip at head of spine).
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DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
4to : Or 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.
