- Seller Inventory #: 02001
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: VG+
- Jacket condition: VG (in mylar)
- Edition: BOMC
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Harper & Brothers
- Place: NY
- Date published: 1940
- Keywords: African-American, Crime Story
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1940 dj has chipped and rubbed edges and spine extremities. Book club review pasted, and owner's name on ffep. . BOMC. Cloth. VG+/VG (in mylar). Octavo. Hard Cover.
DJ : Short 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.
BOMC : Book-of-the-Month Club
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.
chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
