- Seller Inventory #: 004360
- Book condition: Very Good/Fair Chipped Edges.
- Illustrator: b/w Frontis. Photograph
- Edition: No Other Date
- Publisher: The Stratford Company, Publishers
- Place: Boston, Massachusetts (1929)
- Keywords: Novel, Colorado, Mining, Camp
Boston, Massachusetts (1929): The Stratford Company, Publishers. Very Good/Fair Chipped Edges.. No Other Date. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Previous owner's name written inside front cover. DJ bit worn/taped spine, with edge pieces missing. Story of two children from fine New England home transported to Colorado. Western atmosphere. Mining Camp life. .
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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.
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.
