- Seller Inventory #: 11032
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: NY: Sotheby's, November 15, 1989
NY: Sotheby's, November 15, 1989. Quarto (11.0 in. by 8.5 in.); unpaginated; very good hardcover; very good dust jacket; torn, bumped dust jacket corners; bumped book corners; lightly age-toned pages..
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
age-toned : Used to describe a light brown or tan color that paper can sometimes assume as a result of age.
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.
quarto : A term used generally to describe the approximate size of a book, a book that is about 10" to 12" tall and roughly squarish in shape. The term is based on the size of paper traditionally used by book printers which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.
