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The Illustrated Enclyclopedia of Boating by Lucas, Alan
- Bookseller: Jon Schaefer
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 001970
- Edition: First American Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0684159007
- ISBN 13: 9780684159003
- Publisher: Charles Scribner\'s Sons
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1978
- Pages: 272
Description
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978. Black boards, silver spine lettering, 272 pages. "...to introduce contemporary words born of an era of new materials, new design concepts, and new equipment...the entries include American, British, and Australian terminology. Most terms are illustrated." Book had small stain on bottom page edges, o/w quite fine. DJ price-clipped, small wound front cover top, clean and bright.. ISBN: 0-684-15900-7. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo. Boating, Maritime, Sailing.
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.
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.
o/w : An abbreviation for otherwise
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