- Seller Inventory #: 005748
- Book condition: Good/Good Chipped Edges
- Edition: First Edition
- Publisher: The Macmillan Company
- Place: New York (1935)
- Date published: 1935
New York (1935): The Macmillan Company. Good/Good Chipped Edges. 1935. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Covers lightly worn edges, and inside covers and endpapers a bit discolored, else nice copy in price-clipped, chipped edges dj. Novel based on the sea/South Pacific. .
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.
price-clipped : The portion of the dust jacket flap where the publisher prints the suggested price has been cut away. Usually this is a clean 1-2" diagonal cut made with scissors.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
