- Seller Inventory #: 520121
- Format: Hard Cover
- Book condition: Good in Good dust jacket
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Charles Scribner's
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1961
- Keywords: ANIMAL, ANIMALS, DOG, DOGS, PET, PETS, FEEDING, CARE, BREEDING
New York: Charles Scribner's. Good in Good dust jacket. 1961. Hard Cover. Square, tight binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened pages. Owner's name on front paste-down. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with bumped corners. DJ has general edge wear, faded spine, overall shelf wear, clipped corner. 241 pp. Comprehensive reference book about raising and taking care of dogs.; 9.0" (23 cm) tall. .
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.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
paste-down : The portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a book. Often used as front paste-down or rear past-down.
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.
