- Seller Inventory #: 004192
- Book condition: Good/Good, Chipped Edges.
- Edition: Eighth Printing
- Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place: Indianapolis (1974)
- Keywords: Language, Grammar
Indianapolis (1974): The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Good/Good, Chipped Edges.. Eighth Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Corners bumped and frayed/covers little spotted, else clean and nice. Dj bit worn. .
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.
bumped : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
