- Seller Inventory #: 3810
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965, first edition
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965, first edition. Octavo (8.5 in. by 5.75 in.); 192pp.; review slip laid-in; very good hardcover; very good dust jacket; torn, chipped dust jacket edges; lightly rubbed book edges; name, date in pen to 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.
