- Seller Inventory #: 001303
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good+
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Edition: Reprint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place: New York, NY
- Date published: 1908
- Keywords: Fiction Christian Rome Jesus Christ
New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1908 Moderate rubbing, bumping, and wear to boards; hinge cracked at front and in middle; pages yellowed; page edges spotted; some dogears; gift inscription in ink on ffep dated December 25, 1913; decorated endpapers. Copyright page states this edition is "The Wallace Memorial Edition Limited to 1,000,000 Copies Sold to Sears, Roebuck and Company by Harper & Brothers." . Reprint. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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
reprint : Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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.
cracked : In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate, revealing the stitching or binding underneath.
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.
hinge : The portion of a book near the spine that is intended to flex to allow the book to open.
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
