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In this case, the jacket proclaimed "YES, this is a 'BLURB'!" and the picture was of a (fictitious) young woman "Miss Belinda Blurb" shown calling out, described as "in the act of blurbing." The name and term stuck for any publisher's contents on a book's back cover, even after the picture was dropped and only the text remained.
The back panel or flaps of the dust cover are printed with biographical information about the author, a summary of the book from the publisher (known as a blurb) or critical praise from celebrities or authorities in the book's subject area. The back of a dust jacket often has a barcode for retail purchase, and the book's ISBN. The information ...
My Brother's Keeper is a novel by Marcia Davenport based on the true story of the Collyer brothers.Published in 1954 by Charles Scribner, it was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and was later reprinted as a 1956 Cardinal paperback with a cover painting by Tom Dunn.
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The terms are shortened from Latin: rēctō foliō and versō foliō (which translate as "on the right side of the leaf" and "on the back side of the leaf"). The two opposite pages themselves are called folium rēctum and folium versum in Latin, [1] and the ablative rēctō, versō already imply that the text on the page (and not the physical page itself) are referred to.
The original brief back-cover blurb was written by E. B. White. The London Review of Books called it a "linguistic romp with an important lesson at its heart" and "a tale of loss, liberty and language laced with typical Thurberian wit". School Librarian wrote that "The period coloured illustrations add to the charm to make a very inviting book".
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