- Seller Inventory #: 006745
- Book condition: Good/Good Chipped Edges
- Illustrator: Illus. b/w Anthony Ravielli
- Edition: No Other Date
- Publisher: Harper & Brothers
- Place: New York (1959)
- Keywords: Travel, Sailing
New York (1959): Harper & Brothers. Good/Good Chipped Edges. No Other Date. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall DJ little worn edges and price clipped inner flap. .
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
price clipped : The portion of the dust jacket flap where the publisher prints the suggested price has been cut away. Usually this is a clean 1-2" diagonal cut made with scissors.
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.
