- Seller Inventory #: 4862
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: NY: Oxford University Press, 1966
NY: Oxford University Press, 1966. Octavo (9.0 in. by 6.25 in.); 583pp.; very good hardcover; very good dust jacket; torn, chipped, rubbed dust jacket edges; faded spine; bumped book corners; rubbed edges; pen notation to free front 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).
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.
