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Biggles In Australia by Johns, Captain W. E
- Bookseller: Wormhole Books
(AU)
- Seller Inventory #: dm0159
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good+
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Illustrator: Studio Stead
- Edition: First
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- Place: London
- Date published: 1955
- Subjects:
JUVENILE FICTION / General;
Description
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955. 188 pp. Red cloth boards lightly worn. Foxing to edges of text block. Intermittent light foxing internally. Solidly bound. Six colour plates. Gift inscription to ffep, small bookseller's sticker to front pastedown.. First. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Studio Stead. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound 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 plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings. 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. ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book. pastedown : The paper glued to the inside cover of a hard cover book. Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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