- Seller Inventory #: 10253
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Rinehart & Company
- Place: New York
- Date published: [1951]
- Keywords: NOISBN
New York: Rinehart & Company. Near Fine with no dust jacket. [1951]. Hardcover. Maroon cloth cover with white and gold lettering on spine is clean and unworn. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. There is toning between two pages where a news clipping had been laid in, pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Lacking DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages .
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
spine : The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf. Also known as the back.
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).
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book.
laid in : something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
