- Seller Inventory #: 12061
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition: Second Printing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1932
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1932. Second Printing. Hardcover. Black cloth cover is clean with very minimal wear. Corners sharp. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Some pages are still unopened. There is tanning on the endpapers. Lacking DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 326 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.
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.
unopened : A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional method for printing and binding books in which a large sheet of paper was printed with several pages, folded, and bound into the book. . Sometimes inappropriately called uncut
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.
