- Seller Inventory #: 00361
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Edition: Reprint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
- Place: NY
- Date published: 1925
- Keywords: BIBLIOPHILIA
NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1925 decorative boards with solid red cloth spine; corners and edges heavily bumped and rubbed and torn; solid and clean bookblock; a very entertaining volume with art deco illustrations by "Quiz.". Reprint. Boards, Cloth Spine. Good/No Jacket. Octavo. Hard Cover.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound 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
octavo : A book whose page size is approximately 12 inches by 9 inches. 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 cut into eight pages.
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.
reprint : Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
