- Seller Inventory #: 006130
- Book condition: Good
- Illustrator: Illus. b/w Author and Map. b/w Frontis. Portrait.
- Edition: First Edition
- Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co, Inc.
- Place: New York (1933)
- Keywords: Look-See, Travel, Autobiography, Nautical, Paraguay, Brazil, Peru, Grace, Thompson, Seton
New York (1933): E.P. Dutton & Co, Inc.. Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Autobiographical Log of the "Look-See". Ex. library copy/label removed on spine. Covers lightly soiled/faded. Library plates removed inside front cover and front endpaper. May have been removed from private library/school library, rather than public library - not much to show it is ex. lib. Good++. .
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.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
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).
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.
