- Seller Inventory #: 08528
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Illustrator: B&W Diagrams
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Reeves & Turner
- Place: London
- Date published: 1912
- Keywords: Great Britain, Haunted Homes, Family Traditions
London: Reeves & Turner, 1912 Book block clean; slightly shaken at hinge. Bookplate inside front cover. A few pages creased. Corners and edges bumped. Cover rubbed; edges and corners bumped and scuffed; front cover stained.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by B&W Diagrams. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.
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
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.
hinge : The portion of a book near the spine that is intended to flex to allow the book to open.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
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.
shaken : A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
