- Seller Inventory #: 006334
- Book condition: Very Good/Good Chipped Edges
- Illustrator: Illus. b/w Doug Anderson
- Edition: No Other Date
- Publisher: A New Directions Book
- Place: (1954)
- Keywords: Dance, Choreography, Notation
(1954): A New Directions Book. Very Good/Good Chipped Edges. No Other Date. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Recording movement on paper - notation. DJ chipped edges with pieces missing spine tips. Covers lightly worn, else clean, tight and nice. A nice copy. Previous owner's name and date, 1956, on front endpaper. .
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.
chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
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.
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).
