CONCERTINA FOLD / ACCORDION FOLD < Back to Terminology List CONCERTINA FOLD / ACCORDION FOLD Feature Pages are connected so the front of one leaf is attached to the rear of the next, appearing in the form of a continuous group of the letter "V". Brochures and leaflets can be created in this manner. A book with boards and pages connected in this manner is sometimes called a Leporello, the term being a reference to the manservant in Mozart's Don Giovanni, who at one point pulls out a set of demands on pages folded in this manner (Wiki). The first image shows an illustrated adaptatation of Le Petit Chaperon Rouge (Little Red Riding Hood). The second image shows a small book from Barnacle Bindery and clearly shows the concertina fold construction. Previous Next

JACOBS, Jane. THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES. - First edition PRICE $800 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile New York & Toronto: Random House, 1961. 8vo (9.1 in, 23.2 cm). [x], 458 [2] pp. C. & p. First edition: First printing stated. Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was an American-born Canadian community activist noted for her incisive observations of urban planning and design. In her landmark book, Jacobs passionately criticizes the incoherence wrought by Modernist buildings upon city neighborhoods and their vitality. Britannica com. Price intact on front flap. Dust jacket spine subtly sunned. Well-preserved, tight, and clean first edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Hardcover. (1058) PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Excelsa Scripta Rare Books GENLIS, Stéphanie Félicité comtesse de. MEMOIRES INEDITS DE MADAME LA COMTESSE DE GENLIS - First ed See Item FROST, Robert. A WAY OUT A One Act Play. - Signed limited edition See Item HEIDEGGER, Johann Heinrich. HISTORIA PAPATUS. - First edition See Item PUGH, John. REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES IN THE LIFE OF JONAS HANWAY, ESQ. - First edition See Item JACOBS, Jane. THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES. - First edition See Item BRODRICK, Thomas. A COMPLEAT HISTORY OF THE LATE WAR. IN THE NETHERLANDS. - First edition See Item ELIOT, T.S. ANIMULA. - Signed first edition See Item FRANK, Anne. ANNE FRANK: The Diary of a Young Girl. - First English language edition See Item WILDE, Oscar. THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL by C.3.3. - First edition See Item

BIOPREDATION < Back to Terminology List BIOPREDATION Defect Damage to a book caused by a living thing. Common sources of biopredation are insects, animals and other small organisms such as molds. Previous Next

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. FAIRY TALES. 12 LARGE DESIGNS IN COLOUR BY Eleanor Vere Boyle. PRICE £800 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile [3], 94 pages with two pages of publisher's adverts at the end. Complete with 12 bright colour wood-engraved frontispiece and plates, signed "Leighton Bros.", with protective printed interleaves. Plates have very slightly offset to verso of printed guards. Wood-engraved initial letters and printer's ornaments. Contents: The Wild Swans, The Ugly Duckling, The Fellow Traveller, The Little Mermaid, Thumbkinetta, The Angel, The Garden of Paradise and The Snow Queen. All edges gilt. A well thumbed copy with occasional marginal tears (some with historic repairs). Original endpapers preserved. 25.5 x 32 cm. Original rebacked, textured, green, publisher's decorative cloth. New matching green morocco spine with gilt lettering and single fillets. Boards with period black morocco corner repairs with broad gilt fillets (very slightly worn). Original gilt lettering and central panel gilt vignette of swan and two cygnets, a phoenix rising at top, and dragons below including title sashes surrounding and borders filled with flowers, butterflies, and stars. Back cover with central porprietory publisher's cypher in blind within blind borders. The plates, after original drawings by E. V. B. (Eleanor Vere Boyle) clearly illustrate the influence of the Pre-Raphaelite movement on her artwork. One of Boyle's finest creations that is always scarce in any condition. Five copies located by WorldCat in the UK in addition to (RCIN 1129702) in the Royal Collection. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Camden Lock Books AN ALMANACK FOR The Year of our Lord God, 1679. John Goldsmith. >>WONDERFULLY ANNOTATED<< See Item 222 year old embroidered Royal binding See Item HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. FAIRY TALES. 12 LARGE DESIGNS IN COLOUR BY Eleanor Vere Boyle. See Item OVER 100 HAND-COLOURED AQUATINT COSTUME PLATES FROM 1814 See Item Gideon Harvey The city remembrancer: being historical narratives of the great plague at London, 1665 See Item WILLIAMS (Samuel Wells) . Narrative of the American Embassy to Peking, in July, 1859 See Item A Thelemic Tarot Baphomet Publishing 1977 See Item Danger 66,000 Volts TGM 0038 Submission Stage 2 Rem Koolhaas/Office for Metropolitan Architecture See Item JOHANN LEONHARD FRISCH 1712 Nouveau dictionnaire des passagers françois-allemand + allemand-françois See Item Hand-coloured copper engraving (1819) from the GRANDEST BOOK of VIEWS OF CONSTANTINOPLE. See Item

Books in libraries are often handled much more that those held in private hands. As a result, libraries have developed ways of protecting and repairing materials for customer usage. Library Markings Books in libraries are often handled much more that those held in private hands. As a result, libraries have developed ways of protecting and repairing materials for customer usage. Many of the alterations libraries make are damaging to the book, and most books so modified are no long considered collectible. Books from libraries should be described as such when buying and selling them. One common description is to denote former library books as ex-library with the usual markings . Books so described can be expected to have one or more of the following defacements. Books with Dust Jackets Books with dust jackets are often prepared for use by adding a label to the spine, placing the dust jacket inside a clear protective cover and taping the dust jacket directly to the book. Over time, the tape can leave unsightly brown stains on adjacent end papers and deface the covers as well. Due date slips and card pockets If these have been removed, they may leave behind glue stains or torn and abraded paper. Ownership stamps These will usually appear multiple times in a book. They may be found on the title page, text pages, upper or lower page edges, or the inside covers. Cataloging Information Notes and codes used for cataloging the book. Inventory control strips and withdrawn stamps Books that are obviously from a library collection but that do not bear a withdrawn stamp should be purchased with caution, since they may not have been actually deacquisitioned. At times, the library a book comes from might be noteworthy. United States copyright law directs that publishers are to provide two copies of each title to the Library of Congress. At times the Library has sold some of their duplicate copies. This ownership label is affixed to the front board of an 1885 title During times of war, there have been efforts to provide books to military service members. This WW I-era bookplate appears at the front of a rather worn book of Tennyson poetry with a 1900 copyright date. In addition to these markings, libraries will sometimes bind or rebind books. These are described on our page about Library Bindings . Initial text and images courtesy of Alice Voith of My Wings Books. Please send comments to us at resources@ioba.org . Last updated May 17, 2016.

LAID PAPER < Back to Terminology List LAID PAPER Feature Laid paper is made on a mould, which consists of a rectangular frame to which is attached a fine mesh of wires parallel to the long sides of the mold. These fine wires are crossed by somewhat thicker wires, called chain lines, that run parallel to the short sides of the mold. The wire lines (also called laid lines ) and the chain lines can clearly be seen when the paper is held up to the light. Previous Next

RET < Back to Terminology List RET General A trade term. Returnable. The item may be returned for refund. Previous Next

The First Complete Aeschylus PRICE 6,000 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile Aeschylus. ΑΙΣΧΥΛΟΥ ΤΡΑΓΩΔΙΑΙ Ζ; Trageodiae VII [= Seven Tragedies of Aeschylus] Prometheus Bound; Seven Against Thebes; The Persians; Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; Eumenides; The Suppliants. [Geneva]; [Paris]: Ex Officina Henrici Stephani, 1557. First edition thus. 4to. [8], 1-395, [5] pp. Eighteenth-century maroon morocco with twin gilt rules to each board, gilt fileting to the boards edges, spine in six compartments with gilt rules and gilt lettering; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Title page in Greek and Latin. Publisher's device on the title page. Text and notes in Greek. Quae cum omnes multo quam antea castigatiores eduntur, tum vero una, quae mutila & decurtata prius erat, integra nunc profertur. Scholia in easdem plurimis in locis locupletata, & in pene infinitis emendata. Petri Victorii cura et diligentia. Near Very Good. Rubbing to the corners and a small chip to the rear joint; front pastedown with an early 19th-cent. bookplate from the Rugbirns' (Rugby) School Library, free front endpaper has its right corner clipped and an early 19th-cent. gift inscription detailing some of the book's ownership history. Adams 9. Dibdin 237-238. Graesse 29. Moss 8. Renouard 446. The first complete edition of Aeschylus, as this is the first edition in which the tragedy Agamemnon was printed in its entirety. With the intelligent and thougthful notes of M. Etienne (the second), the printer of this edition (Etienne II's notes are particularly valuable in the Agamemnon of this edition, as he worked hard to piece the entire tragedy together). Petrius Victorius' notes are also praised, he was the editor for this edition. Graesse praises this edition for its elegant presentation of Aeschylus, and the quality of the manuscripts the printers consulted. Moss cites this edition as printed in Paris, Adams attributes it to Geneva. Moss refers to Etienne's typography as accurate and elegant, with an important correction to the Libation Bearers contained in this edition. Moss also awards Victorius high marks on the quality of his notes. Aeschylus' tragedies are the oldest surviving from Ancient Greece. With powerful, moving themes and subject matter, they are still regularly performed in theatres around the world today. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Evening Star Books THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS OR MIRTH AND MARVELS - BUMPUS BINDING See Item Keppel's Voyage to the Indian Archipelago See Item The First Complete Aeschylus See Item Baskerville's Milton See Item Cormac McCarthy's Second Novel See Item John Rawls' Magnum Opus See Item

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