- Seller Inventory #: 007809
- Book condition: Very Good/Good Chipped Edges
- Edition: February, 1940 Printing
- Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place: New York and London (1940 B-P)
- Date published: 1940
- Keywords: Novel, black, Related
New York and London (1940 B-P): Harper & Brothers Publishers. Very Good/Good Chipped Edges. 1940. February, 1940 Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall DJ chipped edges. Black man leaning against pink building. All corners inner flaps clipped/no price. Bookplate inside front cover. No dimple rear cover. Harper code B-P copyright page indicating Februrary, 1940 printing. A nice early edition. .
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
flap(s) : The portion of a dust jacket which folds around the edges of a book. Often has descriptive text printed on it.
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.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
