- Seller Inventory #: 007835
- Book condition: Good/Good Chipped Edges
- Illustrator: Illus. b/w
- Edition: First Edition
- Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place: Garden City New York (1947)
- Date published: 1947
- Keywords: Califronia
Garden City New York (1947): Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Good/Good Chipped Edges. 1947. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Covers little scuffed edges. DJ illus. color heavily chipped edges. Previous owner's bookplate front endpaper. Contents mostly clean and nice. The Life Story of the City by th Golden Gate. .
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).
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
