- Seller Inventory #: 02757
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: VG+
- Jacket condition: VG (in mylar)
- Edition: First Printing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Random House
- Place: NY
- Date published: 1952
- Keywords: Fiction
NY: Random House, 1952 Very clean and tight; bumped and rubbed corners, light shelf wear; dj spine slightly faded, edges and folds rubbed; chipped and wrinkled along the top edge and spine extremities; owner's colorful name plate, top ffep; extra clean copy.. First Printing. Cloth. VG+/VG (in mylar). Octavo. HB.
DJ : Short 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.
spine : The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf. Also known as the back.
chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
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.
plate : Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
