- Seller Inventory #: 000752
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good+
- Jacket condition: Very Good+
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Duell, Sloan and Pearce
- Place: New York, NY
- Date published: 1953
- Keywords: Fiction Historical Romance South Carolina American Revolution
New York, NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1953 Fairly clean, square copy; light toning to spine, light bumping to spine ends; gift inscription on front free endpaper. Mild soiling/rubbing to price-clipped dust jacket panels, light chipping along edges, heavier at spine ends and corners; in new protective mylar cover.. First Edition. 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.
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.
chipping : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
front free endpaper : The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book. It may be plain or decorative.
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.
price-clipped : The portion of the dust jacket flap where the publisher prints the suggested price has been cut away. Usually this is a clean 1-2" diagonal cut made with scissors.
