Number Line A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that. Often, though not always, they have a remainder. Remainder Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. He returns from battle to find his precious house still standing, but no longer entirely his. Dorothea Gray has not seen her little sister Lucy since she eloped with the handsome Captain Charlie Harvington and set sail for the Crimea. Price Clipped When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's. The year is 1854, and Britain is in the grip of a gruesome war. Tight Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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. 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. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the. In this unique novel, as engrossing to look at as it is to read, Hodgson has crafted a spine-tingling mystery that will make armchair adventurers want to embark upon their own journeysif only they could be sure of their return.Some terminology that may be used in this description includes: Fine A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. When Lydia disappears and her friend Christopher takes up her journal to record his search for her, the situation becomes even more puzzlinguntil the book's haunting resolution.
As Lydia's private journal entries unfoldcomplete with fold-out maps, photographs, drawings, and handwritten notesthe reader becomes as drawn into the conundrum of the tattooed map as Lydia herself. Somewhere in Northern Africa, an intrepid traveler awakens with a mysterious mark on her hand that soon develops into a detailed, macabre map spreading across her skin. "I'm beside myself, I can barely write thisthe design on my left hand is now extended up my wrist." So deepens the enigma of The Tattooed Map, a richly illustrated and thoroughly captivating first novel by Barbara Hodgson.
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