A.D.: Autograph Document
A.D.s: Autograph Document Signed
A.E.G.: All Edges Gilt
A.L.: Autograph Letter, not signed
A.L.s: -- Autograph Letter, signed
A.M.s: Autograph Manuscript, signed
A.N.s: Autograph Note, signed
Ads: Advertisements
Adverts: Advertisements
Advts: Advertisements
AEG: All Edges Gilt
AL: Autographed Letter
ALS: Autographed Letter Signed
AMS: Autographed Manuscript Signed
ARC: Advanced Reading Copy
auth: Author
B & W: Black and white
B/W: Black and white
BAR: Book Auction Records
BC: Book Club
BCE: Book Club Edition
bce: book club edition
bd: bound
bds: boards
bk(s): book(s)
bkpl: bookplate
bkstrp: backstrip
BMC: British Museum Catalogue
BOMC: Book Of The Month Club
BPC: Book Prices Current
brk: broken
buck: buckram
C., ca: Circa
Cat: Catalogue
Cent: Century
Cf: Calf
chp: Chipped
cl: cloth
col: color
cont: contemporary
cpy: copy
cv: cover
DDS: Dewey Decimal System
dec: decorated
DJ: Dust Jacket
dw: dustjacket, dustwrapper
doc: document
DW: Dust Wrapper
ea: each
ed: edition, editor, edited
edn: edition
endp., e.p.: endpaper(s)
eng., engr: Engraved, engraving
Engl: English
EP's: End Papers
ex-lib, x-lib: ex-library
Ex-Lib: Ex-Library
F: Fine
F., ff: Folio, folios
facs: facsimile
FE: First Edition
FEP's: Free End Papers
Fo: Folio, as pertaining to book size
fp, frontis: frontispiece
FTE: First Trade Edition
fwd: foreward
FX: foxed or foxing
SC: softcover |
G., gt: Gilt
G: Good
hc: hardcover
hf. Bd: half bound
Hf: half
hndbk: handbook
hng: hinge
ltd: limited
lith: lithograph
Ill., Ills: Illustrated, illustrations
impft: imperfect
inscr: inscribed, Inscription
introd: introduction
ital: italic letter
lea: leather
lf: lear
lge: large
lith: lithograph
ltd: limited
M.E.: Marbled Edges
mag: magazine
Mco, mor: Morocco
MS: Manuscript
mssg: missing
n.d.: no date
N.F.: Near Fine
N.p.: No place, publisher or printer
ND: No Date
ob: oblong
Oct: Octavo
OED: Oxford English Dictionary
OP: Out of Print
OP: Out of Print
or., orig: Original
p., pp: Page
P.P.: Printed Privately
pamph: Pamphlet
photo: photograph
pict: pitorial
pref: preface
prev: previous
pseud: pseudonym
pt: part
ptd: printed
pub(d): publish(ed)
Q: Quotation
Qto: Quarto
REM: Remainder
reprd: repaired
rev: revised
sgd: signed
sig: signature
sl: slight
slpcs: slipcase
sm: small
sp: spine
sq: square
swd: sewed
T.E.G.: Top Edges Gilt
tp: title page
TS: Typescript
unb., unbd: Unbound
VG: very good
vo(s): volume(s)
w/o: without
wraps: wrappers
wt: weight
yr: Year |
