- Seller Inventory #: 005436
- Book condition: Good/Fair Chipped Edges.
- Illustrator: Illus. b/w
- Edition: Eighth Edition, Revised Perkins.
- Publisher: Little Brown & Company
- Place: Boston (1946)
- Date published: 1946
- Keywords: Cooking, Fannie, Farmer, Cook, Book
Boston (1946): Little Brown & Company. Good/Fair Chipped Edges.. 1946. Eighth Edition, Revised Perkins.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall DJ chipped edges with few pieces missing one 2" square piece missing top edges. Front hinge cracked. Covers little discolored bottom front cover, but still a nice copy. Previous owner's name endpaper. .
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
cracked : In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate, revealing the stitching or binding underneath.
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).
hinge : The portion of a book near the spine that is intended to flex to allow the book to open.
