- Seller Inventory #: 21593
- Format: Paperback
- Book condition: Good+
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Place: London
- Date published: 1927
- Keywords: Foreign Language, Arabic Language, Middle East Languages
London: Oxford University Press, 1927 owner's name on front cover. Pencil marginalia. Text block slightly shaken in moderately worn binding with frayed spine extremities. 154 pp. w/index. Wraps. Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.
wraps : The paper covering on the outside of a paperback.
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.
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.
shaken : A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
marginalia : Notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner.
