Glossary of Abbreviations


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NOTES / CODES / ABBREVIATIONS:

( ) Date on Book's Copyright Page
[ ] Condition of the Item
VG = Very Good, Near Mint
G+ = Good, minor flaws
G = Good, has been used
G- = Good, edges worn or some problem
F = Well worn
P = Pages missing or major damage
{ } Titles listed to either on DJ or book's back cover

I am a tough grader: books have to be really really, nice for me to say it is [VG]. Books graded [G] are probably better than you think!


Miscellaneous Abbreviations:

BK = Book
DJ = Dust Jacket
B&W = Black & White
Btm = Bottom
Chnk = Chunk
clb = Club
clr = color frontispiece
Cor = Corner
Cov. = Cover
Cpy = Copy
Crk = Cracked
DBL = Double
Div. = Division
ED. = Edition
EP = End Papers
gf =  Glossy Frontispiece
Fld = Fold
Frnt = Front
Frntic = Frontispiece
GLDN = Golden
GlsyPicCov = Glossy Picture Cover book
Grt.Btn. = Great Britain
HB = Hardy Boys
H.S. = High School
Illustr. = Illustrated By
Intrnl = Internals
Lev = Level
Lib. = Library Bound book or used as Lib.Book
Los = Loose
Msg. = Missing
ND = Nancy Drew
Orng = Orange
OS = Overstamp
Ovrsz = Oversized
Pic.Cov. = Picture Cover
Pg = Pages
Ppbk = Paperback
Prntg = Printing
Ptn = Pattern
Pub. - Publishing
SP = Spine
Rdr = Reader
Thk = Thick
Thru = Through
Tp = Top
Tpd = Taped
Univ. = University
W/ = With
Wkly = Weekly


PUBLISHERS (in Capitall Letters)

B-M = Bobbs-Merrill
C.L. = Companion Library
C&L = Cupples Leon Co.
DD = (Nelson) Double Day
F&W = Funk & Wagnalls
G&D = Grosset & Dunlap
GSP = Goldsmith Publishing
H.A. = Henry Adams
H-B = Hanna Barbara
H.M. = Houghton Mifflin Books
H&R = Harper & Row
JBL = J.B. Lippincott
LBC = Little Brown Co.
MB = Milton Bradley
McG = McGraw Hill
RH = Random House
R&L = Riely & Lee
RMc = Rand McNally
RPC = Row, Peterson, & Co.
S&S = Simeon & Schuester
SCH = Scholastict Book Service
W.D. = Walt Disney
WHTM = Whitman
WP = Western Publishers


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