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Billy Bathgate by Doctorow, E.L
- Bookseller: Yesteryear's Books
(US)
- Seller Inventory #: BOOKS000613I
- Format: Hb
- Book condition: G+-VG-DJ is rough on corners & spine, small tears top & bottom
- Illustrator: No
- Edition: First
- Publisher: Random House
- Date published: 1989
- Pages: 323
Description
Random House, 1989. First. Hb. G+-VG-DJ is rough on corners & spine, small tears top & bottom. Large 8vo. No. of spine-small indentations in front of DJ
DJ : Short 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.
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.
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