- Seller Inventory #: 007611
- Book condition: Good/Good
- Edition: No other Date
- Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock
- Place: New York (1940)
New York (1940): Reynal & Hitchcock. Good/Good. No other Date. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall DJ little worn. Corners bumped, and book slightly cocked, else nice, clean, tight copy. .
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
cocked : Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not align when the book is lying flat. Severity may differ.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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.
