- Seller Inventory #: MC450BB
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: Good+
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc.
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1950
- Keywords: Romance General Fiction
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1950. T5 - DJ has heavy chipping at spine ends, corners, and edges. Lower half of DJ is water stained. Spine tanned. 3" sealed tear at edge of left flap. Boards bumped at spine ends. Endpapers and page edges tanned. Text is clean and bright. Sound binding.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
DJ : Short 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.
chipping : 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.
bumped : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
