Native Tongues by Berlitz, Charles
- Bookseller: Persephone's Books
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 025435
- Format: Hard Cover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: Very Good
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0448123363
- ISBN 13: 9780448123363
- Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1982
Description
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1982. Very Good/Very Good. ISBN: 0-448-12336-3. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. xi, 340 pp. First printing. The book is very slightly cocked. The binding is tight and the text is clean. The jacket is price-clipped. Keywords: Language; Linguistics.
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
cocked : Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not align when the book is lying flat. Severity may differ.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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.
price-clipped : The portion of the dust jacket flap where the publisher prints the suggested price has been cut away. Usually this is a clean 1-2" diagonal cut made with scissors.
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