Canoe Sketches
by O'Reilly, John Boyle
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Ontario, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
NP, ND. HB. Gray cloth, gilt lettering and stamping on front cover and spine, small 8vo, pages 243-347 plus 20 pages reviews for some of O'Reilly's works bound ar rear, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Excerpt from "Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sports". Rebound by Legatoria Pacchiotti of Torino. Describes O'Reilly's canoeing trips on the Connecticut, the Susquehanna, and down the Delaware Rivers. Book condition VG.
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- Bookseller
- Parker's Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- OK8402
- Title
- Canoe Sketches
- Author
- O'Reilly, John Boyle
- Format/Binding
- HB
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- NP
- Date Published
- ND
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ireland;
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Parker's Rare Books
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About the Seller
Parker's Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Ontario, Wisconsin
About Parker's Rare Books
Specializing in antiquarian, collectible, scholarly, and rare books of all genres.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- ND
- no publisher's date given
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...