- Seller Inventory #: 000524
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Near Fine
- Jacket condition: Very Good+
- Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Pocket Books
- Place: New York, NY
- Date published: 1985
- Keywords: Historical Romance Colorado Taggert Family
New York, NY: Pocket Books, 1985 First hardcover edition. Binding is square and still fairly tight; pages are clean; bottom spine is bumped. Dust jacket is mildly creased at spine bottom with heavier creasing and a few nicks along top edges and at top corners.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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.
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.