- Seller Inventory #: 000003
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good
- Jacket condition: Fair
- Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Doubleday & Company
- Place: Garden City, NY
- Date published: 1958
- Keywords: Fiction; Nautical; Clipper Ship; Sea Captain;
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1958 Small water stain on top edge, rubbing to head and heel of spine. DJ is browning and chipping along the edges and has several small rips, tears, and rubbed places. Jacket painting by Julian Paul. . Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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.
chipping : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
heel : The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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.
