The Fly and the Fish
by ATHERTON, JOHN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Macmillan Company 1951. first edition, super octavo, black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine & silver fish to front board, vii + 195pp, illus, VG+ (slight stains to front board, slight rubbing to spine extrems, slight foxing to eps) in VG- d/w (price clipped, rubbing, brusing & chipping to edges & folds, pieces missing from spine extrems & rear upper corner)
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130074
- Title
- The Fly and the Fish
- Author
- ATHERTON, JOHN
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan Company 1951
- Keywords
- first edition John Atherton sports fishing angler angling fly fishing fly tying trout
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- 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...
- Rubbing
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Octavo
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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