- Seller Inventory #: 000129
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: Very Good-
- Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Doubleday & Company
- Place: Garden City, NY
- Date published: 1981
- Keywords: Fiction; Romantic Suspense; Arizona
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1981 A little wear on the bottom of the spine; pages & binding are clean and tight, almost appears unread. DJ has a little edge wear at top and bottom and spine darkening.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
DJ : Short 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.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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.
