- Bookseller: Caliban Books ABAA-ILAB
- Seller Inventory #: 0039641
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Near Fine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1970
Book Description
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition; published in 1970. Near fine hard back book with a very good dust jacket. All pages clean, crisp and unmarked. Price stamp to front flyleaf. Dust jacket bumped and rubbed with tearing along edges, though dj mostly present. Strong spine. Clean boards. Very nice copy. 250 pp. Ocatvo.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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.
crisp : A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp will not have 'well-read' pages, i.e., where the book will naturally open to certain pages or sections.
bumped : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
