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The King's General by Daphne Du Maurier
- Bookseller: Spirit Tomes and Treasures
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 000115
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Quantity available: 1
- Edition: Unlisted
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place: Garden City, New York, USA
- Date published: 1946
Description
Garden City, New York, USA: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946 A period piece of 1600's England. Edition is unlisted but obviously an early edition as the copyright date matches. Possibly a First US Edition of this out of print book. Green cloth cover good with gold letterin on faded spine ; one corner bumped slightly; 2 spots on back cover. Owner inscription on front and back flyleafs and side page edges. No markings in pages. Words "Literary Guild" hand stamped in small purple letters on title page. Binding weak at front and back flyleafs. Unlisted. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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
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.
title page : A page where the title of the book, the author's name and publication information usually appear.
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.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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