- Seller Inventory #: 000098
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: Very Good
- Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc.
- Place: Indianapolis, IN
- Date published: 1954
- Keywords: Historical Fiction; North Carolina; American Revolution; Flora MacDonald
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., 1954 Map endpapers. Dark blue cloth boards with still bright gilt lettering. Lower corners and heel are bumped, the rear lower corner is slightly creased. Some very mild foxing. The DJ shows some mild creasing along the edges and is slightly browned on the undersigned. The jacket design is still very bright and colorful and is protected in a Brodart jacket. Overall, a very nice copy of this book.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
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
heel : The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
gilt : The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example.
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.
bumped : 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.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
