- Seller Inventory #: 000006
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good+
- Jacket condition: Good
- Edition: Reprint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.
- Place: Murray Hill, NY
- Date published: 1934
- Keywords: Fiction; New England; Family Life
Murray Hill, NY: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1934 12th large printing. Slight discoloration to page edges and spine is a little loose. DJ is chipped along the edges and ripped at top and bottom of spine; back has two tears about 1" each; inside corners have been clipped. In Brodart jacket.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good+/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.
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.
chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
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.
Brodart : Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The name refers to the company by the same name which produces many book repair and archival products.
