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The Training of Wild Animals
by Bostock, Frank C.; Edited by Ellen Velvin
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Century Co., 1903. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo. xvii, 256 pages. Hardcover in red cloth with illustration of lion head on the front cover. The binding is worn and soiled and has some spotting. Spine is toned, and is also spotted. Some of the white lettering of the title has rubbed off the spine. Front and rear gutters are cracked with the cords showing. Original owner's inscription of "F. Nash Jr 7/27/03" is written on the front flyleaf. Text has some foxing. Pages 102-103 are toned from a newspaper clipping that was placed between the pages. The newspaper clipping is from The Sun. Someone has written "Mar 21 - 1817" at the top of the page in pencil. The article is titled "Polar Bear Kills Jack Bonavita." There is browning on page 197 facing the illustration. Some of the illustrations, especially towards the rear, have heavy foxing. Illustrated with 32 black and white photos (collates complete).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046476
- Title
- The Training of Wild Animals
- Author
- Bostock, Frank C.; Edited by Ellen Velvin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- The Century Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1903
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1903; Frank C. Bostock; Ellen Velvin; Training; Wild Animals; Circus; Zoo; Sport; Sporting; Rare; Collectible; Lions; Bears; Chimpanzee.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sporting; Animals;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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