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The Angler's Companion: The Lore of Fishing
by Murphy, Brian
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0448226820
- ISBN 13
- 9780448226828
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Paddington Press, 1978. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. New York: Paddington Press, 1978. First Edition . Near Fine/Very Good+. Clean hardcover book in clean bright dust jacket. Clean sunset yellow cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean decorated endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated with beautiful woodcuts. 352 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, small price clip at upper corner of front inside flap, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A treasury of the finest fishing writing of all time. Famous fishing stories such as R. D. Blackmore's "Crocker's Hole,"; humorous tales from Rudyard Kipling and Henry van Dyke. A wealth of lore and tradition from such great anglers as Izaak Walton and H. D. Thoreau, along with works from Washington Irving, Sir Walter Scott, John Keats, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ernest Hemingway, and other great writers..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028775
- Title
- The Angler's Companion: The Lore of Fishing
- Author
- Murphy, Brian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0448226820
- ISBN 13
- 9780448226828
- Publisher
- Paddington Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- FISHING LITERATURE, ANGLING, BRIAN MURPHY, FIRST EDITION, ANTHOLOGY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Stories/Anthologies; Nature; Fish/Fishing;
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Edges
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