- Seller Inventory #: 001123
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good+
- Jacket condition: Very Good+
- Edition: Reprint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Hawthorn Books
- Place: New York, NY
- Date published: 1945
- Keywords: FICTION HISTORICAL ROMANCE GAY 90S WILLIAMSBURG VIRGINIA SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
New York, NY: Hawthorn Books, 1945 8th printing. Third book of the "Williamsburg Novels"; includes a geneology chart of the Day/Sprague/Campion families. Mild bumping to bottom of spine and corners, with a little bit of spine lean; faint toning to page edges but endpapers and pages are clean and free of any blemishes. Dust jacket has moderate creasing along the edges, with a sliver missing from the top front panel; light sunning to edges; now in protective mylar cover.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very 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.
reprint : Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
