- Seller Inventory #: 000064
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Fine
- Jacket condition: Very Good
- Edition: First Thus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Place: US
- Date published: 1956
- Keywords: Science2-Paleontology Paleontology
US: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1956. Fine in Very Good jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Fine condition book in very fine condition dust jacket. The dust jacket is covered with mylar. Book is notation free. This is the story of man and his ancestors. First American edition-Translated from the French. 274 pages. The book has what appears to be a remainders mark on the bottom of the book.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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
first thus : Indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a substantially different format than the true first edition. For example, a first illustrated edition of a book, or even a first paperback release of a book originally published in hard cover.
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.
