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Reminiscences of a Falconer
by Fisher, Charles Hawkins (Major)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Tehachapi, California, United States
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About This Item
Green cover. Three falcons in hoods tooled in gilt on cover, gilt title and falconer and falcon in gilt on spine. Maroon endpapers. Deckle-edges. MDCCCDI. Photogravure frontispiece of author with falcon, tissue covering plate. Introduction by the author. Includes Index. Seven photogravure plates and six portraits, tissue covering plates. Good condition. Fading on spine, and some shelf wear. Small rip at top of spine. Back board has a few spots and scratches. Some foxing throughout. Binding is tight.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Friends of the Tehachapi Library
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FOLT-003
- Title
- Reminiscences of a Falconer
- Author
- Fisher, Charles Hawkins (Major)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John C. Nimmo
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1901
- Pages
- 188
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Falcons, Falconry
Terms of Sale
Friends of the Tehachapi Library
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Friends of the Tehachapi Library
Biblio member since 2024
Tehachapi, California
About Friends of the Tehachapi Library
The Friends of the Kern County Library, Tehachapi Branch serves the needs of our local branch of the Kern County Library. We offer our higher priced Vintage books online.
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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.,...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
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