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The Sportsman's Library
by Mills, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG
- Seller
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Alliance, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh: William Tait. VG. 1845. 1st Edition. Leather & Cloth. Variant first edition without any illustrations, quarter bound in red leather and cloth. Frontis engraving of the author. 5 /12" x 8 3/4", 4 31 pages. Very Good condition. The leather is lightly rubbed at the co rners and spine tips. Some soiling to the covers. Former owner's book plate is affxied to the front pastedown. The preliminary pages lightly tanned and foxed else clean, tight copy. Note: There are no indicatio ns that any illustrations have been removed, there seems to have been none ever issued with this copy. .
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- Bookseller
- Dearly Departed Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 80882
- Title
- The Sportsman's Library
- Author
- Mills, John
- Format/Binding
- Leather & Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Tait
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1845
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Dearly Departed Books
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Alliance, Ohio
About Dearly Departed Books
Selling books since 1978. We specialize in SF, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Western & Pulp Fiction. With an inventory of more than 35,000 Hardcover 1st editions, Vintage Paperbacks , Pulp Magazines & general antiquarian books. Store front open by chance or appointment.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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