- Seller Inventory #: 005524
- Book condition: Fair-good
- Illustrator: Illus. Color N.C. Wyeth
- Edition: Reprint.
- Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place: New York (1939)
- Date published: 1942
- Keywords: N, C, Wyeth, Illustrated, Classic
New York (1939): Charles Scribner's Sons. Fair-good. 1942. Reprint.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Pictorial paste label on front cover little scuffed. Covers worn edges and tips spine. Front hinge cracked, and dampstained around page edges - one page taped. A little wrinkling, but all plates present - one plate creased, else nice. Sold "as is". .
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.
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.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
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.
hinge : The portion of a book near the spine that is intended to flex to allow the book to open.
plate : Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
