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The Dawn at Shanty Bay by Knowles, Robert E
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 734
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company,
- Place: N.p.:
- Date published: [1907].
- Pages: 156 pp.
Description
N.p.: : Fleming H. Revell Company, , [1907]. . First edition. . 8vo, . Illustrated by Griselda Marshall McClure. Cream, red and gilt decorated pictorial cloth. A bit dusty, name on verso of frontis, but on the whole a very bright and attractive copy.
gilt : Decorative patterns imbedded into the affected portion of a book. Often appears on the boards or the spine, and may be very simple, to elegant, to ludicrous.
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.
verso : The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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