- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 3721
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Rand McNally
- Place: Chicago
- Date published: 1960
Book Description
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Minimal shelf wear, small bookplate on front pastedown, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf wear, several small, closed tears else bright and clean. Red cloth boards, color pictorial endpages, frontispiece. 4to. 237 pages. Illus. (color plates). A lovely copy of this minor classic, richly illustrated by Ward.
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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.
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.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
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.
pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
shelf wear : Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
Closed tears : Tears in which no material has been lost.
