- Seller Inventory #: 12850
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: Good + (in mylar)
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill
- Place: NY
- Date published: 1964
- Keywords: Languages, Foreign Languages, Language Instruction,
NY: McGraw-Hill, 1964 clean and tight with light shgelf wear; bookplate on fep; jacket edge-worn and lightly chipped; 256pp., including index.. Cloth. Very Good/Good + (in mylar). 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).
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
