GEORGES BRAQUE: Neue Skulpturen Und Gravierte Platten by ZERVOS, Christian
- Bookseller: M. Kettner and Son, Booksellers
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 001750
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: No Dj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: A. & G. De May
- Place: Dusseldorf
Description
Dusseldorf: A. & G. De May. 41 pp. No edition or date stated. No dust jacket issued. Text and captions in German. Heavy, loose- bound pages in brown cloth boards with gilt stamping on cover. Boards with two folds which overlap. 32 color and b/w plates. Light edge wear most pages; some pages with smallish corner creases. Three inches of cloth on upper end of spine stressed and separating (but not torn) along back edge. Upper end of spine (and text underneath) also bumped.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dj. 11.5" x 15.25".
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.
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.
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.
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.
bumped : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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