dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.

chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.

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.

remainder mark : Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on the edges of the text block in the form of a marker stripe or a stamp of some sort.

Remainder marks considerably lower the overall collectibility of a title, although, in some cases, they are acceptable to a collector.

Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.