Please refer to the Book Condition Guidelines above when considering your purchase. In particular, used books listed on this site may have minor blemishes on the cover that are obviously not depicted in the stock image of the listing. If ordering a particular cover is important to you then please contact us for confirmation. Whilst we make every effort to show the correct cover design we are unable to guarantee the cover image that arrives from our suppliers. Publishers can have various cover designs for each ISBN so images can change without notification. Please note that the images used on our site are intended as a guide only. May be soiled, scuffed, stained, spotted or bumped and may have loose joints, hinges, pages, etc. Reading Copy - A used book that is sufficiently worn that its only merit is the complete text, which must be legible. May have substantial creasing to spine, remainder mark, bumped, tape repairs and foxing. May have a remainder mark, bumped, minor tape repair and foxingįair - A worn used book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title page, etc. Good - The average used book that is totally complete and intact. Very Good - Used Book showing some signs of wear. US: trade paperback is often used to mean what in the UK would be a B-format paperback, and contrasts with an rack-sized mass-market edition.Įxcellent - Used Book with nil or few minor defects or faults. In Australia, a trade paperback is often published instead of a hardback. In fiction publishing, a trade paperback version is often published after the hardback but before the main mass market paperback version. Trade Paperback (TPB) - A large-format paperback, usually Royal or Demy size. Royal - A standard book format (TPS = 234 x 153mm or 9 7/32 x 6 1/32 inches), usually hardback, used for most hardback fiction and general non-fiction. Can also be termed mass market paperbacks. Rack size - US equivalent of A-format but slightly taller and narrower. Slightly shorter and narrower than an A-format. Small-format paperback edition of a book, usually commercial fiction, intended to sell in large numbers (TPS = 171mm x 105mm or 6 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches). Mass Market - Generally a US term but is increasingly applied to A-format paperbacks in the UK. Slightly smaller than the more common Royal format. Mostly a large-format paperback, though there's no universal agreement on exact size (commonly it's Royal-sized, though it often means (TPS = 216 x 159mm or 8 1/2 x 6 17/64 inches).ĭemy - (occasionally Demi) A standard book format (TPS = 216 x 135mm or 8 1/2 x 5 5/16 inches), usually hardback, often used for library edition hardbacks and more literary hardback fiction ( cf trade paperback). Standard book format (TPS = 197 x 130mm or 7 3/4 x 5 1/8 inches), slightly larger than A-format, typically used for more upmarket or literary paperbacks.Ĭ-format - Generally a UK term. Standard book format (TPS = 178 x 111mm or 7 1/64 x 4 3/8 inches), typically used for most small-format paperbacks.ī-format - Generally a UK term.
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