- Seller Inventory #: 11765
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: No Place: Butterworth, 1966
No Place: Butterworth, 1966. Octavo (8.75 in. by 5.75 in.); 404pp.; very good hardcover; very good dust jacket; lightly torn, chipped dust jacket edges; rubbed book edges; name, address in pen to front pastedown endpaper..
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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.
chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
endpaper : The double leaves bound into a book at the front and rear after printing. One side is glued to the inner portion of the boards (the paste-down) and the other is left loose (free endpaper).
pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book.