- Seller Inventory #: 15749
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Illustrator: B&W Photographs & Drawings
- Edition: Sixth Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Wheelabrator Corporation
- Place: Mishawaka, IN
- Date published: 1959
- Keywords: NOBN, NOAMZCOM, NOAMZCA, NOHALF, Engineering, Metallurgy
Mishawaka, IN: Wheelabrator Corporation, 1959 Text block clean and tight in lightly edge-worn binding. owner's name on ffep. 193 pp.. Sixth Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by B&W Photographs & Drawings. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.
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.
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.