- Seller Inventory #: 11549
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition: First Edition; First Printing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: McGraw Hill
- Place: New York
- Date published: [1969]
New York: McGraw Hill. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. [1969]. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Black cloth cover with gilt lettering and decoration on spine is clean with minimal wear. Endpapers have some toning. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Light speckled foxin on top and fore edges. DJ clean with minimal wear, not price clipped. A series of Panel discussions sponsored by the Authors Guild, Inc. And given at the New School in New York City in 1965 and 1966 by writers on writing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 415 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.
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.
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.
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.
