- Seller Inventory #: 009050
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good/Good
- Illustrator: Illus. Endpapers in Color and Others Tri-Color by Derrick Sayer
- Edition: No Other Date - 1st. Ed.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: E.P. Dutton and Company
- Place: New York (1961)
- Keywords: Juvenile, Cats, Derrick, Sayer
New York (1961): E.P. Dutton and Company. Good/Good. No Other Date - 1st. Ed.. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall DJ chipped edges with inner flaps clipped. Covers, illus. color, lightly worn edges. Contens clean and nice. .
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
flap(s) : The portion of a dust jacket which folds around the edges of a book. Often has descriptive text printed on it.
chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
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.
e.p. : When used to describe a book, the endpaper(s), The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
