- Seller Inventory #: 000431
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Fine
- Jacket condition: Very Good+
- Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Doubleday & Company
- Place: Garden City, NY
- Date published: 1982
- Keywords: Mystery; New York; Daytime Television; Hilary Quayle
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1982 A Hilary Quayle mystery. Binding is clean & tight. Dust jacket has light soiling; 1/2" closed tear at top of rear panel; and a nick at the top of the spine.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Fine/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.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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.
closed tear : A tear in which no material has been lost.
