- Seller Inventory #: 07547
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good +
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Illustrator: B&W Photographs
- Edition: Second Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Place: NY
- Date published: 1940
- Keywords: Engineer, Autobiography, Engineering
NY: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1940 Book block clean and tight. Bookplate inside front cover. Cover rubbed; edges and corners bumped and scuffed. Some places front and back cover where color is faded.. Second Edition. Cloth. Good +/No Jacket. Illus. by B&W Photographs. 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.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
