- Seller Inventory #: 005437
- Book condition: Good/Good Chipped Edges
- Illustrator: Illus. Color R. Farrington Elwell
- Edition: Reprint.
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place: Boston (1903, 1955)
- Keywords: Western, Young, Adult
Boston (1903, 1955): Houghton Mifflin Company. Good/Good Chipped Edges. Reprint.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall DJ has letter "A" bottom spine, and is chipped edges, else nice. Ex. library copy stamped endpapers and inside rear cover and edges. Contents mostly clean and nice. .
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.
reprint : Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
