Hunting (The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes)
by THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT & MORRIS, MOWBRAY
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Longmans, Green, and Co. 1886 (Third edition). Octavo, brown cloth boards with blue lettering to spine & front board, dark brown illus to front board, patterned eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xii + 373pp + 2pp ads, illus, VG ( light rubbing to boards & spine, light bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, internal front hinge cracked, bookseller's sticker to front pastedown, owner's inscription to prelim, light foxing, moderately heavy tanning to page edges, large tear to tissue guard,small scribble in biro to rear ep)
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- Title
- Hunting (The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes)
- Author
- THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT & MORRIS, MOWBRAY
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co. 1886 (Third edition)
- Keywords
- hunting sport
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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