New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965. Second Edition. Third printing of December 1965 Fine in 3/4 red leather and red cloth covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text and gilt decorations in the compartments and gilt rules to the edges of the leather on the boards, A small quarto of 9 1/2 by 6 5/8 inches. Without a dust jacket. 1118 pages with thumb tabs to the fore edge of the text block. An exceptionally handsome, clean and tight leather binding with no prior ownership markings of any kind.

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Bookseller: Town's End Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TB29741
Title: The Reader's Encyclopedia
Author: Benet, William Rose
Book Condition: Used
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1965

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Quarto: The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Raised Band(s): Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Fore Edge: The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...