- Seller Inventory #: 000763
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Near Fine
- Jacket condition: Very Good+
- Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place: New York, NY
- Date published: 1987
- Keywords: Fiction Legal Thriller Crime Fiction Lawyers Prosecutors
New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1987 Light bumping to bottom corners; mild shelf wear (chipping, rubbing, no tears) to dust jacket.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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.
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.
shelf wear : Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
