Cloth "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. A book may have more than one first edition in. First Edition In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book.
Jacket Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps. Octavo Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing. Used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the. Fine A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. After more than two hundred years as a corpsicle, Jaybee Corbell awoke in someone elses body and under. Inscribed When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been. A World out of Time audiobook, by Larry Niven. will challenge the most sophisticated readers." - ALA Booklist "This fantastic novel is a mix of Niven hard science and a time-travel concept to boggle the mind.even after the last line the feeling remains of the story still rushing on into the magic distance of the universe." - A.E.Some terminology that may be used in this description includes: 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. Rich in imagination and astonishing in breath. Niven is a true master!" - Frederik Pohl "Niven's intoxicating concepts, ideas, scientific extrapolations, and exotic hardware buffle up from every page. van Vogt wrote, "This fantastic novel is a mix of Niven hard science and a time-travel concept to boggle the mind." "Larry Niven is one of the giants of modern science fiction." - Mike Resnick "His tales have grit, authenticity, colorful characters and pulse-pounding narrative drive. After his escape via a spaceship, he traverses such vast distances-with accompanying time dilations-that he returns to Earth 3 million years later to discover a world wholly alien to the one he'd left. After 200 years in cryosleep, Jaybee Corbell awakens to find that his mind has been downloaded to another body and he's in servitude to a harsh future State.
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