On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art
by Kipling, Rudyard
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1926. Original marbled boards (hardcover) with printed label, in the scarce glassine jacket, original dark-blue chemise and slipcase. (8" x 4 3/4"). Limited 1 of 176 copies printed by Bruce Rogers for the venerable Rowfant Club. 12 pages, Uncut deckle pages, title-page vignette, headpieces and tailpiece. In a note regarding the design of this book Rogers wrote: "In planning these little decorations for Kipling's amusing fish tale, the color scheme was suggested by my recollection of moon-rises behind the pollard willows along the Cam, in the fens between Cambridge and Ely. One evening a stray red calf ran up and down the bank in the sunset light, bawling for company." (Blumenthal, Bruce Rogers p.96). A fine copy in slipcase and chemise showing light wear, glassine jacket with two closed tears on front panel and some chipping. A collectable and desirable copy of a scarce Kipling work. Size: Octavo. First Edition.. Cloth. Fine. Octavo. Private Press.
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- Books & Bidders
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004547
- Title
- On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- The Rowfant Club
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland
- Date Published
- 1926
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- KIPLING, ANGLING, ROWFANT, BRUCE ROGERS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fly-fishing Classics;
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- Jacket
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
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- Vignette
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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