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Since the early days of printed books, the size of the books were often determined by the number of times the original large sheet of paper was folded to make the page size before trimming and binding.
8vo (Octavo) A book that is 8" to 9" tall.
Folio A book that is 13" to 15" tall.
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 Augustine Funnell Books - SF/Fantasy/Horror Hardcover I-Q   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Even though he knows he shouldn't, a psychiatrist who counsels the forlorn and the depressed responds to a corrupt and politically compromised friend's request for help with a case in which a woman has cut a man into little pieces.
THE BOOK OF THE NIGHT, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1984, 1st; plague, murder and heresy are upon the Island of Iona in this novel where the 10th century co-exists simultaneously with the 20th, where dark gods and Celtic rituals are shrouded in the killing power of modern technology; F (unread) in NF dj;
Book One of The Stone Dance of the Chameleon Trilogy.
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With this may be compared the popular phrases good form and bad form applied to behaviour in society: so format (from the French) is technically used of the shape and size, e.g.
of a book (octavo, quarto, etc.) or of a cigarette.
From its use in the sense of regulated order comes the application of the term to a class in a school (sixth form, fifth form, etc.); this sense has been explained without sufficient ground as due to the idea of all children in the same class sitting on a single form (bench).
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This electrifying book is the first full account of the historical day fanatical suicide-martyrs attempted to assassinate President Harry S. Truman.
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