- Seller Inventory #: 11212
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
- Illustrator: Seton, Ernest Thompson
- Edition: Reprint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1938
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1938. Reprint. Hardcover. Blue cloth cover with gilt emblem on front panel, gilt lettering on spine. Cover has wear at edges, spine darkened. Binding sound. Endpapers are foxed. Pages clean and unmarked, but have light age toning. Lacking DJ. ; Frontis, Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 229 pages .
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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.
gilt : The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example.
foxed : A discoloration to paper, brown and yellowish spots.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
