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On Dry-Cow Fishing
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, number 120 of 176 copies printed by Bruce Rogers for The Rowfant Club. 12 pages, Uncut deckle pages, title-page vignette, headpieces and tailpiece. Provenance: Bookplate of J.R. Owens. A fine copy in chemise and slipcase showing shelf wear with material loss at head and top edge, glassine jacket with open tear to lower rear panel. A collectable and desirable copy of a scarce Kipling work. First Edition. Cloth. Fine. Octavo. Private Press.
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- Bookseller
- Books & Bidders
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006138
- Title
- On Dry-Cow Fishing
- 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; Rowfant Club; Fly-fishing
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fly-fishing Classics;
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Glossary
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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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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