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BLENCARROW. YOUTH LOVE AND LIFE IN THE CANADIAN COUNTRYSIDE by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone
- Bookseller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 20054
- Format:
- Jacket condition: Dust Jacket Included
- Edition: 1st Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926
- Date published: 1926
Description
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926, 1926 First Edition. A fine copy in the publisher's green cloth, black titles to the spine in a lovely pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 307 pp.. 1st Edition. Hardcover.
dustwrapper : 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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