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American Garden Writing Gleanings From Garden Lives Then and Now by Marranca, Bonnie [ed]
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New York: : PAJ Publications, , [1988]. . First edition. Lrg. 8vo,. cloth and dustjacket, jacket lightly rubbed & price clipped, else very good. Essays and writings by eminent horticulturists such as Louise Beebe Wilder, Henry Ward Beecher, George Washington, John Bartram etc.
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
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.
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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