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AMERICAN FIREARMS MAKERS: WHEN, WHERE, AND WHAT THEY MADE FROM THE COLONIAL PERIOD TO THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY by Carey, A. Merwyn
- Bookseller: Commonwealth Books
(US)
- Seller Inventory #: 409098
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1953
Description
New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1953. 8vo. Cloth. xiii, 146 pp. Illustrated with 7 b/w plates. Dust jacket sun-faded at spine, chipped at head and heel of spine, edgeworn, and price-clipped. Light rubbing to extremities, slight dampstaining to lower right corner of plates. Very good minus in a good dust jacket.
rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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.
chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
heel : The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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.
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.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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