- Seller Inventory #: 007800
- Book condition: Good
- Edition: First Edition
- Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place: New York (1907)
- Date published: 1907
- Keywords: Novel, New, Zealand
New York (1907): Doubleday, Page & Company. Good. 1907. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Illustration on front cover little chipped and edges bit scuffed. Previous owner's name front endpaper. Contents mostly clean and nice. A novel set in New Zealand. .
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.
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).
