- Seller Inventory #: FI241BB
- Format:
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: Good
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Nelson Doubleday, Inc.
- Place: Garden City, NY
- Date published: 1976
- Keywords: SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY ADVENTURE THRILLER
Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1976. AD3 - Book Club Edition. Price clipped on DJ with 2 tears on back approximately 1/2" X 1/4" each and and 3" sealed tear. Mylar protected.. Paper Boards. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club (BCE/BOMC).
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.
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.
price clipped : The portion of the dust jacket flap where the publisher prints the suggested price has been cut away. Usually this is a clean 1-2" diagonal cut made with scissors.
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.
