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Shooting By Moor, Field, and Shore
by Eric Parker; et al
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
€192.42€173.17
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About This Item
London: Seeley, Service & Co LTD, c1933. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8.5" by 6". Various. A smart copy of one of the volumes from the popular 'Lonsdale Library' series, looking into shooting, illustrated throughout. In the original price-clipped dust wrapper.Volume III in the important and popular sporting series 'The Lonsdale Library'.A comprehensive guide to sport shooting on the moor, field, and shore. Illustrated with a frontispiece, forty-eight plates, and in-text illustrations.Collated, complete. This volume was edited by Eric Parker with contributions by many figures, including Leslie Sprake, Major Portal, Richard Clapham, and more.Undated, dated from the list of titles of the Lonsdale Library to the dust wrapper and leaf before the half-title, the most recent title being Volume XVI, 'Rackets, Squash Rackets, Tennis, Fives & Badminton'. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart, with very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Only a few very light marks to the the boards. Dust wrapper is lightly edge worn. Age-toning to the wraps, and a little rubbing to eh joints. Pictorial onlay to the spine is faded and a little rubbed. A few light marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 884P28
- Title
- Shooting By Moor, Field, and Shore
- Author
- Eric Parker; et al
- Illustrator
- Various
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Seeley, Service & Co LTD
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- c1933
- Size
- 8.5" by 6"
- Keywords
- Shooting By Moor, Field, and Shore sport hunting shooting sport
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Rubbing
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Fine
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- Publisher's cloth
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