- Seller Inventory #: EC20464BB
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Nortex Press
- Place: Burnet, Texas
- Date published: 1978
- Keywords: POETRY SIGNED
Burnet, Texas: Nortex Press, 1978. CL5 - Cocked and light discoloration. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Brown covered boards with gilt lettering.. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
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.
gilt : The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. 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 folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
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).
