Rural Sports together with the Birth of the Squire and the Hound and the Huntsman
by Gay, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good -
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1930 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. Limited. 4to. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. xviii (i), 36 pp, list of b&w plates, Introduction by Owen Culbertson; Rural Sports; The Birth of the Squire; The Hound and the Huntsman. This Limited Edition of Rural Sports consists of 1550 unnumbered copies made by William Edwin Rudge in the month of March, 1930 at Mount Vernon, N. Y. The illustrations are by Gordon Ross Typography by Frederic Warde. Not Price Clipped. Owner's small ex-libris plate on front pastedown. 1"x3" chip along top edge spine extending to front panel dj with thin chipping along top edge rear panel, and a 4" closed tear to rear fore-edge panel at top edge corner. Slightly frayed bottom egde spine cloth with minor edge wear, else, clean and bright; tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Red paper-covered boards with black blackstrip, gilt decorated spine and top text block edge..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003128
- Title
- Rural Sports together with the Birth of the Squire and the Hound and the Huntsman
- Author
- Gay, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Edition
- Limited
- Publisher
- William Edwin Rudge
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- FIELD & STREAM RURAL SPORTS GAY JOHN 1685-1732 FISHING AND HUNTING THE BIRTH OF THE SQUIRE THE HOUND AND THE HUNTSMAN
- Bookseller catalogs
- FIELD & STREAM;
- Size
- 4to
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West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
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- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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...
- 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....
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