- Seller Inventory #: 000689
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good+
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Edition: Reprint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Rinehart & Company
- Place: New York, NY
- Date published: 1957
- Keywords: General Fiction Mystery Anthology
New York, NY: Rinehart & Company, 1957 Contains three novellas: The Door, The Confession, and The Red Lamp. Spine still straight and binding fairly tight; milld bumping to spine ends and corners; small green check mark in top corner of front free endpaper.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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.
reprint : Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
bumping : 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.
front free endpaper : The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book. It may be plain or decorative.
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.
