- Seller Inventory #: 07980
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: Poor (in mylar)
- Illustrator: B&W Diagrams
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place: Garden City, NY
- Date published: 1965
- Keywords: 6524909, Soviet, Russia, Espionage, U.S.S.R., Cuban Missle Crisis, Intelligence Agencies, Colonel Oleg Penkovskiy
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965 Book block clean and tight. Cover edges lightly bumped. Jacket rubbed; edges and corners bumped and scuffed; creased; large tears and missing pieces at edges.. Cloth. Very Good/Poor (in mylar). 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
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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.
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.
