- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 3980
- Format: Hardcover.
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
- Place: Boston
- Date published: 1989
Book Description
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover.. One bottom corner very gently bumped, gift inscription on fep, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf wear, two closed tears (one small (>1") and one moderate (>1.5")), several small impressions, priceclipped, else bright and clean. 4to. Blue cloth boards, silver gilt lettering, map endpages, frontispiece. 4to. 18pp plus np plates (56 numbered full page plates with equal number of descriptive pages). Illus. (color plates). Jonathan Porter describes Iceland as 'an exploration of the natural world of Iceland, a place of extraordinary geological interest and one of unusual and often peculiar beauty'. Richly illustrated by Eliot Porter, this is, overall, a very presentable copy of this emerging classic.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
