- Seller Inventory #: SJ4427
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: Very Good (in mylar)
- Illustrator: Photographs
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: William Morrow & Co.
- Place: NY
- Date published: 1957
- Keywords: Travel, Cannibals, Aborignes of Autralia, Canibals of New Guinea
NY: William Morrow & Co., 1957 Textblock and binding is clean and tight. moderately rubbed, unclipped dust jacket, lightly sunned spine. Small chip on back bottom edge; 192pp. . Cloth Spine. Very Good/Very Good (in mylar). Illus. by Photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.
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.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
sunned : The affected portion of the book has been discolored from exposure to the sun.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
