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Hunting Trails on Three Continents: A Book of the Boone and Crockett Club
by GRINNELL, George Bird; ROOSEVELT, Kermitt; CROSS, W. Redmond; GRAY, Prentiss N. (editors)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Good
- Seller
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Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1933. Original burgundy cloth with embossed silver gilt title on spine and front boards, in mylar protected dustjacket, (8.5 x 5.5 inches). Limited First Edition, number 22 of 250 copies printed by Eugene V. Connett at The Derrydale Press. xi, 302 pages; illustrated with frontispiece photo and 14 b&w plates. The seventh book of the Boone and Crockett Club, with Preface by Grinnell, articles by Roosevelt, Prentiss Gray, Henry Shoemaker, Charles P. Curtis, et. al., on a wide variety of game in Europe, America, and Africa (Siegel 72; Frazier B-12-a; Biscotti, p. 172). Shows some minor toning to spine and pages, the exceedingly scarce jacket is toned, worn and chipped, with paper loss at foot. Remains a highly desirable copy of a scarce Derrydale title . Limited First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/Good. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Books & Bidders, Antiquarian Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006079
- Title
- Hunting Trails on Three Continents: A Book of the Boone and Crockett Club
- Author
- GRINNELL, George Bird; ROOSEVELT, Kermitt; CROSS, W. Redmond; GRAY, Prentiss N. (editors)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Limited First Edition
- Publisher
- The Derrydale Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Sporting & Hunting; Derrydale Press
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About the Seller
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Cleveland, Ohio
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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