- Seller Inventory #: 007439
- Book condition: Good/Fair Chipped Edges.
- Illustrator: Illus. b/w
- Edition: No Other Date
- Publisher: Buck Printing Company
- Place: West Boylston, Mass. (1951)
- Keywords: Hobbies, Craft, Rug, Making
West Boylston, Mass. (1951): Buck Printing Company. Good/Fair Chipped Edges.. No Other Date. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall DJ, illus. color, heavily chipped edges with pieces missing. Covers little spotted and scuffed. Previous store name stamped front endpaper. Little musty, else contents clean and nice. .
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
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).
