- Seller Inventory #: 12949
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good+
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House
- Place: Moscow
- Date published: 1938
- Keywords: Russian Foreign Relations, U.S.S.R. and Capitalism, benefits of Socialism Over Capitalism
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1938 Book block aged, but clean and tight. Cover moderately worn, and frayed at bottom spine, with some handsoiling; 94pp.. Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 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
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.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
