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Summary: An experienced book dealer and online seller explains sizes and abbreviations in collectors terminology in this free series of book collecting videos.
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Molly Mackey Molly Mackey has been an independent book dealer for more than 10 years. She gained her book knowledge as a used book buyer for Bodhi Tree bookstore on Melros... read more
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Questions & AnswersHi. I'm Molly Mackey, and I'm with Expert Village. Now, we're going to talk about book sizes and types and their abbreviations. These will be common things that you will be using to list your books. First off is the ever popular mass market paperback. Sometimes they're referred to as pocket paperbacks when you're searching. So, you want to list it as a mass market PB. PB would be the abbreviation most used. Next, we have the most common for modern books. This is called the over-sized paperback or also commonly known as the trade paperback. And, that's the way you'd want to list it in your listing. Sometimes you'll come across these with a plastic spiral binding and they, kind of, don't fit into any category. So, it's best to list them as a plastic spiral bound workbook style book. Next, we have a typical sized hardback usually abbreviated as HB for hardback instead of spelling it all the way out in your description. Also, you would want to mention that it has a DJ. That's short for dust jacket. Next, we have the over-sized. This is called, I like to describe it as the coffee table sized book. But, many book dealers will describe it as the 4TO. And, that's the terminology for the size of the over-sized hardback such as this, 4-T-O. Next, we have cloth and buckram. A cloth book is a nice fiber. You can tell the difference. Buckram is cloth, but it's a very slick, kind of, cheaper kind of feel. So, when you have a nice feel to it, you're going to describe it as a cloth hardback. This would be a buckram hardback. And last, you're going to have leather bound which you do run across. That would be anything, obviously, that was bound in leather.
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