List of booksellers' abbreviations

This is a list of abbreviations commonly used by booksellers.

• ABA: Antiquarian Booksellers' Association
• ABAA: Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America
• A.e.g.: All edges gilt.
• A.e.s.: All edges stained.
• A.L.s.: Autograph letter, signed.
• ARC: Advance reading copy.
• BCE: Book Club edition.
• Bd.: Bound.
• Bdg.: Binding.
• Bds.: Boards.
• B.e.p.: Back endpaper.
• B.f.e.p.: Back free endpaper.
• B.L.: Blackletter.
• BOMC: Book-of-the-Month Club.
• c. or ca.: Circa; around/about (referring to date)
• C. & p.: Collated and perfect.
• Cf.: Calf.
• Cl.: Cloth.
• CR or CPR or ©: Copyright
• CWO: Check or cash with order.
• Dec.: Decorated.
• D.j.: Dust jacket.
• D.S.: Document signed.
• DW: Dustwrapper (same as dust jacket, or book jacket)
• Ed.: Edition or editor.
• Endp. or e.p.: Endpaper.
• Eng. or engr.: Engraved(ing).
• Ex-lib: Ex-Library copy, a book once held in library. Not to be confused with Ex Libris.
• Ex Libris: From the library of, referring to previous owner—often found on bookplates.
• F: Fine condition.
• Facs.: Facsimile.
• F.e.p.: Front endpaper.
• F.f.e.p.: Front free endpaper.
• FL: Flyleaf
• Frontis. or front. or fp.: Frontispiece.
• G: Good condition.
• G. or gt.: Gilt.
• G.e.: Gilt edges.
• HC/HCV: Hardcover.
• Hf. bd.: Half bound.
• Illus. or ills. or ill.: Illustrated.
• IOBA: Independent Online Booksellers Association
• Litho: Lithograph.
• Ltd. Ed.: Limited Edition.
• M.e.: Marbled edges.
• Mco., mor.: Morocco leather.
• MS(S). Manuscript(s).
• N.d.: No date.
• NF: Near Fine condition.
• N.p.: No place, publisher, or printer.
• N.p.c.: not price clipped (of the jacket).
• NYR or NYP: Not Yet Released or Not Yet Published
• OSI: Out of Stock Indefinitely
• O.p.: Out-of-Print.
• P.b. or p.p.b.: Paperback.
• P.c.: price clipped (of the jacket).
• Pl(s).: Plate(s).
• P.P.: Privately printed.
• pp: Pages; p (and then the number) for page; pp for plural pages.
• PPD: Postpaid.
• Pr.: Printing.
• Pseud.: Pseudonym.
• Pub(d).: Publisher/published.
• REP: Rear endpaper.
• RFEP: Rear free endpaper.
• RET: Returnable
• SLC or SC: Slipcase
• SGD: Signed
• T.e.g.: Top edge gilt.
• T.L.s.: Typed letter, signed.
• T.p.: Title-page.
• TS.: Typescript.
• Vol. or vols.: Volume/volumes.
• VG: Very Good condition.
• W.a.f.: With all faults.

See also

• Book size
• List of used book conditions

References

1. List of used book conditions
2. Book size
3. American Booksellers Association
4. Independent Online Booksellers Association
5. List of companies of Canada
6. Antiquarian Booksellers' Association
7. List of companies of South Korea
8. List of companies of the United Kingdom K–Z
9. Royal Society of Literature
10. Personal advertisement
11. List of collections of Crusader sources
12. List of Freemasons (A–D)
13. Chi Rho
14. Aromanticism
15. List of English translations from medieval sources: A
16. Sun (disambiguation)
17. David Fairchild
18. New Living Translation
19. Ipswich
20. Soviet Union