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True Stories of Modern Explorers by Webster Smith, B
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London & Glasgow: : Blackie and Son Limited, , n.d. 8vo,. Illustrated with 8 halftone plates. blue pictorial cloth. Spine a little darkened, prize label pasted to ffep, else very good. Tales of exploration along the Amazon, in Central Asia, the North & South Poles, Africa and Mount Everest.
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.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
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.
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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