- Seller Inventory #: 013164
- Format: Cloth
- Book condition: Fine
- Jacket condition: Very Good
- Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1970
- Keywords: Southeast Asia
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). xvii, 414 pp. Stated first edition, but also marked as a book club edition. The jacket is very lightly sunned at the spine. Keywords: Southeast Asia.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term 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.
book club edition : A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the overall quality of the book's materials is lower than the same book as printed by a traditional publishing house.
sunned : The affected portion of the book has been discolored from exposure to the sun.
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.
