London: Methuen and Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1903. Hardcover. Slight rubbing to boards. Off-setting to end papers. Some bumping to endpapers. 1/8" tear to bottom of spine. Some knocking to bottom edge of front board. Binding a little loose between two gatherings.; Unpaginated. 50 colour plates. A new edition. The illustrated pocket library of plain and coloured books. Red cloth boards. Printed paper spine label. Selected plates: Running in to a stag; Fox Hunting Swishing at a Rasper; Fox Hunter's Toast; Coursing Dead - Dead; Grouse Shooting; Snipe Shooting; Running a Badger to Bay; Fly Fishing; Bear Baiting ..."; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 5679
Title: The National Sports of Great Britain
Author: Alken, Henry
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
Publisher: Methuen and Co
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1903

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We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.

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Gatherings: A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Spine Label: The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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"...
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....
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...