American Sporting Book Series
by Biscotti, M. L
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Madison, Ohio: Sunrise Publishing Company, 1994. Limited first edition. Fine in dark green buckram covered boards with gilt text and decorations on the spine and on the front board with a small but attractive prior owner's book plate on the first free end paper. In a fine glassine dust jacket and contained within a fine paper covered slip case. One of only 300 limited edition copies printed. This copy is signed by the author on the limitation page and numbered copy 36. 325 pages of text including an index and illustrated with drawings by T. O. Duncan. A unique bibliography of the publications of the Forest and Stream Publishing, Outing Publishing , Macmillan's The American Sportsman's Library, Cincinnati Publishers, A. R. Harding and Hunter-Trader-Trapper, Windward House, A. S. Barnes and Company,The Angler's Club of New York, The Boone and Crockett Club Books and a host of other publishers of sporting books. The unusual aspect of this particular edition is that it has pages from important books actually tipped-in.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB20159
- Title
- American Sporting Book Series
- Author
- Biscotti, M. L
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Limited first edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sunrise Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Madison, Ohio
- Date Published
- 1994
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
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Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
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- Slip Case
- A protective sleeve, often made of decorative cardboard or leather which houses a book. It is open on one end, so as to allow...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
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