ABC
for Book Collectors
acid migration
aeg
Ahearn
APG
ARC
bibliography
bibliophile
binding
biopredation
blind
boards
book club
bound
browned
bumped
cancel
casebound
chipped
cloth
colophon
condition
conjugate
copyright
page
cover
device
Duodecimo
(12mo)
dust
jacket
dust
wrapper
edition
end
paper
engraving
ep
errata
etching
ffep
first
edition
fly
fly
page
fore
edge
fore
edge painting
Folio
(F)
format
foxing
frontispiece
galley
proof
gathering
gilt
Glaister
goffered
head
holographic
illuminated
inscribed
intaglio
issue
japan
key
book
leaf
lean
leather
limited
edition
lithograph
marbled
marriage
McBride
mull
nd (no
date)
np (no
place)
Octavo
(8vo)
op
oop
out-of-print
out of series
parchment
paste
down
perfect
bound
point
price clipped
printing
quarto
(4to)
quire
rare
recto
relief
review
copy
scarce
self
cloth
sextodecimo
(16mo)
signature
signed
slipcase
sophisticated
spine
state
sunned
tail
teg
threading
thus
tipped in
title
toning
trade
edition
turn in
uncut
unopened
vellum
verso
volume
woodcut
wrappers
wraps
xylographic
yapped
yellowed
Zemple
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