Western Harvest Days and Those Steam Monsters (Americana Series)

wraps : The paper covering on the outside of a paperback.

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.

tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.

ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.