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Immortal Village by Peattie, Donald Culross
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 425
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
- Place: Chicago:
- Date published: 1945
- Pages: xxii, 201 pp
Description
Chicago:: University of Chicago Press,, 1945. First edition. 8vo,. Illustrated with woodcuts by Paul Landacre. cloth and dustjacket, housed in a slipcase. Wear to edges of slipcase jacket dusty with 1/2" loss to head of spine, else very good. Limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the author and the illustrator.
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.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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