- Bookseller: Caliban Books ABAA-ILAB
- Seller Inventory #: 0040807
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Near Fine
- Edition: Reprint, First Thus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Horn & Wallace
- Place: Albuquerque
- Date published: 1964
Book Description
Albuquerque: Horn & Wallace. 1964. Reprint, First Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Orange cloth octavo with white jacket. Jacket is VG, with light soiling and rubbing to covers and spine. Gentle wear to spine ends and open tear to rear corners. Price-clipped. Book is NF, pages clean, text unmarked. Light creasing/warping to illustrated, front pastedown. 193 pp. Octavo.
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rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
vg : Very Good condition. can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or paper. Any defects must be noted. (defined by AB Bookman's Weekly)
NF : Near fine condition
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.
reprint : Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
first thus : Indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a substantially different format than the true first edition. For example, a first illustrated edition of a book, or even a first paperback release of a book originally published in hard cover.
soiling : Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
price-clipped : The portion of the dust jacket flap where the publisher prints the suggested price has been cut away. Usually this is a clean 1-2" diagonal cut made with scissors.
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.
