- Seller Inventory #: 000022
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Edition: Reprint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: The Blakiston Company
- Place: Philadelphia, PA
- Date published: 1944
- Keywords: Historical Fiction; Colonial Period; North Carolina; Cape Fear River; Plantations; Sea Trade
Philadelphia, PA: The Blakiston Company, 1944 Spine and front hinges loose; end papers depict the map of the Carolina shore by Edward Moseley; . Reprint. Hard Cover. 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.
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.
