- Seller Inventory #: 11235
- Format: Paperback
- Book condition: Near Fine
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Illustrator: One Color Drawings
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University
- Place: Logan, UT
- Date published: 1996
- Keywords: Western American Literature Magazine Volume XXXI No. 1, Syncretic Prophecy in 'The Land of Little Rain', Concentric Texts in 'The Professor's House', Competing Fictions in the Representation of Chinese-American Experience
Logan, UT: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1996 Book block clean and tight. Cover rubbed; light shelf wear.. Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by One Color Drawings. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.
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
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.
shelf wear : Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
