- Seller Inventory #: 000735
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good+
- Jacket condition: Good+
- Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Random House
- Place: New York, NY
- Date published: 1961
- Keywords: Fiction American Civil War War Between the States
New York, NY: Random House, 1961 Water mark to top-staining; still fairly clean, tight copy. Dust jacket is spine sunned, mild wear & chipping along edges with small piece missing from bottom spine. . Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good+/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.
chipping : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
sunned : The affected portion of the book has been discolored from exposure to the sun.
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.
