- Seller Inventory #: 007192
- Book condition: Very Good/Good Chipped Edges
- Illustrator: Illus. b/w Hubert Buel.
- Edition: No Other Date
- Publisher: Hastings House
- Place: New York (1959)
- Keywords: young, Adult, Plains, Indian
New York (1959): Hastings House. Very Good/Good Chipped Edges. No Other Date. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall DJ little worn. 2 labels front endpaper stating owner has read book, else nice, clean, tight copy. .
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.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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).
