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OF POTS AND PRIVIES by WYNN, Makin
- Bookseller: M. Kettner and Son, Booksellers
(US)
- Seller Inventory #: 001654
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Near Fine
- Jacket condition: Very Good
- Illustrator: Makin Wynn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: William W. Denlinger
- Place: Middleburg, VA
- Date published: 1959
Description
Middleburg, VA: William W. Denlinger, 1959 80 pp. First edition. Bright-green boards with black stamping on cover and spine. An informal scatapot-gical study of a pair of the lesser necessities of life. That's pot, as in chamberpot. Book plate affixed to front past-down. Dust cover with a half-inch closed tear on lower edge of front panel and light edge and corner wear. Dj in protective glassine.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Makin Wynn. 5.75" x 8.75".
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
DJ : Short 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.
plate : Full page illustration or photograph. 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.
closed tear : A tear in which no material has been lost.
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