- Seller Inventory #: 20375
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good+
- Jacket condition: Very Good (in mylar)
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
- Place: Carbondale, IL
- Date published: 1963
- Keywords: Criticism/writers, Playwrights, Literary Criticism, English Literature, George Bernard Shaw
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1963. Text block clean and tight with minimal wear to boards; dust jacket lightly edge-worn. 181 pp. w/index. Cloth Spine w/paper Boards. Very Good+/Very Good (in mylar). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
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.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
