Adam & Charles Black 1939. FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, super octavo, brown buckram spine, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, ix + 136pp, illus, VG (spine sl cocked, moderate bruising to board extrems & edges, moderate soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, ex-libris plate tipped in to prelims, light foxing to prelims & terminals, moderate creasing to gutters)

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Bookseller: Hard To Find Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 311076
Title: Nymph Fishing for Chalk Stream Trout
Author: SKUES, G E M
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Adam & Charles Black 1939
Keywords: first editions hobbies fly fishing flyfishing chalk stream trout

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Buckram: A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
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...
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....
Tipped In: Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
Cocked: Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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...
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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...
VG: Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...