- Seller Inventory #: 004510
- Book condition: Very Good/Fair Chipped Edges.
- Illustrator: Illus. b/w Photographs, and Drawings By Arline K. Thomson
- Edition: First Edition
- Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.
- Place: New York (1959)
- Date published: 1959
- Keywords: Dancing, Ballet, Nila, Devi
New York (1959): E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.. Very Good/Fair Chipped Edges.. 1959. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall DJ faded and spotted along spine. .
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.
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.
e.p. : When used to describe a book, the endpaper(s), The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
