- Seller Inventory #: 000594
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good+
- Jacket condition: Good+
- Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: J.B. Lippencott Company
- Place: Philadelphia, PA
- Date published: 1944
- Keywords: Nazi French Occupation True-Life Account
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippencott Company, 1944 War time edition. Spine ends bumped & worn; boards lightly soiled; browning to end papers and page edges; previous owners name in pencil on ffep. Several rips, tears, and some small missing pieces to dust jacket.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good+/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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.
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.
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.