- Seller Inventory #: 20783
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good+
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Illustrator: B&W Illustrations
- Edition: First Printing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place: NY
- Date published: 1923
- Keywords: Books About Books, antiques/collectibles, Book Collectors, Book Collecting
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923 ffep excised, else text block clean and tight; moderately worn, character-soiled binding with small amount of fraying. 356 pp. w/index. First Printing. Boards, Cloth Spine. Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by B&W Illustrations. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
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
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.
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.