Art of Deer-Stalking
by Scrope, William
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
London: Edward Arnold. Good. 1897. New Edition. Hardcover. Sportsman's Library series. Rebound in cloth and marbled paper with title label on spine. New pastedowns and endpapers, and top edge gilt. All plates present. Ex-library copy with perforating library stamp and "discard" written on title page. Boards have light soiling and text block has light toning and wear to edges. One of the most celebrated Scottish hunting books of the Victorian period. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 304 pp .
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- Seller
- Back of Beyond Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 023135
- Title
- Art of Deer-Stalking
- Author
- Scrope, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- New Edition
- Publisher
- Edward Arnold
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1897
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Hunting, Color Plates
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About the Seller
Back of Beyond Books
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Moab, Utah
About Back of Beyond Books
Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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"...
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