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Empire of Fear by Petrov, Vladimir and Evdokia
- Bookseller: Syber's Books
 (AU)
- Seller Inventory #: 0101722
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Reasonable
- Jacket condition: Fair
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Andre Deutsch
- Place: London
- Date published: 1956
Description
London: Andre Deutsch, 1956. 352pp., last blank, list of illustrations, foreword by authors, appendix by Vladimir Petrov and index. Red coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Black to top paper edge. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the spine. Browning to the endpapers along with handling marks and slight foxing. Very slight foxing to the paper edges. Plain text dustwrapper, with yellow and black background with a red star on the black background, with red, white and yellow writing on the front panel and spine. The dustwrapper is sun affected, which has caused general darkening of the paper and slight fading to the spine. Chipping to the head and heel of spine and to the corners of the dustwrapper. On the verso of the dustwrapper has foxing marks and is quite brown. Autobiography of the Russian couple at the centre of the Cold-War storm in Australia. Digital image available upon request.. First Edition. Red Boards. Reasonable/Fair. 8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo. Biography.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
dustwrapper : 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.
bumping : 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.
chipping : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
heel : The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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.
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.
verso : The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
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