- Seller Inventory #: 007877
- Format: Hard Cover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: Very Good
- Edition: Reprint
- Publisher: Garden City Publishing
- Place: Garden City
- Date published: 1927
- Keywords: Autobiography Biography Black History African American
Black cloth boards with yellow lettering on spine. Light wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages are clean and bright. Previous owner name and address on front free endpaper, list of names (eight names, neatly penned) on rear free endpaper. 211 pgs. Clean dustjacket has small closed corner tears, wear at spine corners, chipping at spine edges. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A highly sought after classic in African American literature. 8vo. African-American.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound 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.
chipping : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
front free endpaper : The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book. It may be plain or decorative.
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.
rear free endpaper : The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be plain or decorative.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
