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AN HONORABLE PROFESSION by L'Heureux, John:
Description
[New York]: Viking, [1991].. Large octavo. Cloth and boards. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a 1.5cm snag in the lower flap fold.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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