Can These Bones Live. With Forty-Two Drawings
by Dahlberg, Edwin. Preface by Herbert Read
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Bibliographic Details
- Format: Cloth
- Book condition: Very Good in Very Good DJ
- Quantity available: 1
- Edition: First Printing Thus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: New Directions,
- Place: Norfolk, CT:
- Date published: 1960.
Book Description
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1960. Cloth First Printing Thus Very Good in Very Good DJ Revised Edition. 8vo, 177 pp. Slight smoke discoloration to spine edges and rear endpaper, page edges dusty. Jacket lightly sunned, rubbed, edgeworn.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a 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 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. sunned : The affected portion of the book has been discolored from exposure to the sun. 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. endpaper : The double leaves bound into a book at the front and rear after printing. One side is glued to the inner portion of the boards (the paste-down) and the other is left loose (free endpaper). Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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