THE LIEUTENANT COLONEL AND THE GYPSY by Federico Garcia Lorca
- Bookseller: Jackson Wegren
(CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 000322
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: NF
- Jacket condition: NF
- Illustrator: Mark Simont
- Edition: First American Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Doubleday & Company
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1971
Description
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1971. Near fine in publisher's reinforced binding with minor shelfwear, in a near fine unclipped dustjacket with slight rubbing to spine and corners and light soil to edges. The Spanish poet-playwright's first book for children. Colour pictorial jacket and coloured ink drawings to every page, illustrated by Caldecott medalist Marc Simont, who also translated the text. Dustjacket is mylar-protected.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. NF/NF. Illus. by Mark Simont . Octavo.
rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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
octavo : A book whose page size is approximately 12 inches by 9 inches. 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 cut into eight pages.
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.
shelfwear : Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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