Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper.Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.
Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.
Text fine, light soiling to original cloth bright dust jacket with small closed tear with tape repair to rear panel, light edge-wear to spine ends lightly affecting one letter of “Steinbeck.” A very good copy. When supplies ran out, the job was finished in yellow cloth (as here). Issued both in paper wrappers and in cloth with dust jacket, it was first bound in light buff cloth. The first edition of Cannery Row was printed using materials in conformity with wartime conservation measures. Small octavo, original yellow cloth, original dust jacket.įirst edition of this classic assemblage of colorful characters, in second-state cloth binding.Īmid the sardine canneries, vacant lots, flophouses, and honky-tonks of Monterey, California, Steinbeck has assembled a colorful gallery of memorable characters.
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