- Seller Inventory #: 368
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: Second Revised Edition; Fifth Printing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Orient Longmans
- Place: Calcutta India
- Date published: 1966
Calcutta India: Orient Longmans. Good+ with no dust jacket; Spine sunned and ends bumped. Dampstain . to back cover. Lower corners bumped and one worn. Faint stains and . ink marks to TOC leaf. Wrinkle to center of last two leaves, endpapers, . and pastedown at the back. No DJ.. 1966. Second Revised Edition; Fifth Printing. Hardcover. A classic treatise on Hatha Yoga. 1966[1949]. Numerous positions and exercises are described in detail, including their technique, duration, and benefits. Liberally illustrated with b&w plates and cuts. Frontis of the author. Author devotes significant space to development of the "inner culture:" the spirit and the self. A classic, no-nonsense text. Brown linen over boards. Between G+ and VG-. Scarce in any condition. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 138 pages.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
DJ : Short for 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.
leaves : When used to refer to a part of a book means the book's pages.
TOC : table of contents
sunned : The affected portion of the book has been discolored from exposure to the sun.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
VG- : A term used to denote a condition a slight grade lesser than VG. Very Good is defined by AB Bookman's Weekly as "a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or paper. Any defects must be noted."
bumped : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
