- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 3743
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First American Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: J.B. Lippincott & Co.
- Place: Philadelphia, PA
- Date published: nd [circa 1932]
Book Description
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott & Co., nd [circa 1932]. First American Edition. Hardcover. Bottom corners gently bumped, touch of sunning at top and bottom edges, owner signature in pencil on ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, light chipping (focused at head and heel), light, even soiling, else bright and clean.Orange cloth boards, printed pictorial paper label at front (colored inks), decorative endpages, frontispiece. Small 8vo. 48pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Featuring black-and-white illustrations and four color plates by Arthur Rackham. A handsome copy, quite uncommon in DJ.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.
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.
chipping : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
frontispiece : A portrait or illustration on the page opposing the title page.
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.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. 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 folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
nd : no publisher's date given
soiling : Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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.
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
