- Seller Inventory #: MC847BB
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: Good
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Nelson Doubleday, Inc.
- Place: Garden City, New York
- Date published: 1971
- Keywords: Science Fiction Fantasy
Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1971. C2 - Spine ends and corners of DJ chipped. DJ is tanned and foxed. 3" and 1" sealed tear along gutter edge. Book is cocked. Spine ends of boards worn. Page edges tanned and foxed. Remainder mark at bottom edge. Small spot stain on fore edge. Text is clean and bright. BCE/BOMC.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club.
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.
fore edge : The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. Depending on context, may refer to either the text edges, or the board edges.
cocked : Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not align when the book is lying flat. Severity may differ.
chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
foxed : A discoloration to paper, brown and yellowish spots.
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.
remainder mark : Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on the edges of the text block in the form of a marker stripe or a stamp of some sort.
Remainder marks considerably lower the overall collectibility of a title, although, in some cases, they are acceptable to a collector.
gutter : The inside margin of a book, the edge of the pages nearing the binding.
