- Seller Inventory #: 002830
- Book condition: Very Good/Good, Chipped Edges.
- Illustrator: Map Endpapers.
- Edition: Third Printing
- Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Co. Publishers
- Place: Rutland, VT
Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co. Publishers. Very Good/Good, Chipped Edges.. Third Printing. (1966) Previous owner's name inside front cover along with small newspaper clipping, Remnants of label front endpaper, else contents clean and nice. Inner flaps of d.j. clipped. Small 8vo. .
flap(s) : The portion of a dust jacket which folds around the edges of a book. Often has descriptive text printed on it.
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).
