Alexis Bespaloff's Guide to Inexpensive Wines by Bespaloff, Alexis
- Bookseller: The Book Press
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 00893a
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good +
- Jacket condition: Good
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0671215027
- ISBN 13: 9780671215026
- Publisher: Simon and Schuster
- Place: New Haven
- Date published: 1973
Description
New Haven: Simon and Schuster, 1973. Salmon colored cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. Boards show light edge wear. DJ is shelf rubbed with light chipping to top edges.. Hard Cover. Good +/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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.
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.
chipping : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
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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