- Seller Inventory #: 5886
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963, first edition
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963, first edition. Octavo (8.0 in. by 5.75 in.); 192pp.; inscribed and signed by author to free front endpaper; very good hardcover; very good dust jacket; torn, rubbed dust jacket edges; age-toned spine; rubbed book corners; cocked spine; age-toned pages; pencil nota. tions to rear free 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.
age-toned : Used to describe a light brown or tan color that paper can sometimes assume as a result of age.
cocked : Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not align when the book is lying flat. Severity may differ.
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).
rear free endpaper : The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be plain or decorative.
inscribed : a short note written by the author or a previous owner in the beginning of a book, generally accompanied by a signature.
