- Seller Inventory #: 001484
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Near Fine
- Jacket condition: Very Good+
- Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Harper & Row
- Place: New York, NY
- Date published: 1967
- Keywords: Fiction
New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1967 Original Book-of-the-Month Club edition (stated First Edition, but has BOMC impressed dot on rear cover and slug on front flap of dust wrapper). Tight, clean copy, no spine slant, bumping, or dents; just a couple of dark spots (ink?) on top page edge and a small soil spot on fore edge. Dust jacket has very mild shelf wear along edges, with a tiny closed tear at top of spine and faint toning to fore edges, otherwise, quite clean and bright and now in a protective mylar cover.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
BOMC : Book-of-the-Month Club
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.
fore edge : The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. Depending on context, may refer to either the text edges, or the board edges.
bumping : 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.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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.
shelf wear : Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
closed tear : A tear in which no material has been lost.
