The Shooting Man's Bedside Book
by B.B"; Watkins-Pitchford, D
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Plus
- Seller
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Sorn, East Ayrshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode ( Publishers) Limited, 1948. First Edition. Green Cloth. Good Plus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Watkins-Pitchford, Denys; "B.B. 479pp. 1948 A first edition. A good plus copy. No wrapper. Numerous illustrations throughout. Gilt embossed lettering to the spine and a small gitl vignette to the front board. All four board corners bumped or turned in. The spine a little faded with a strip of fading by the spine to the front board. Very short ink gift inscription to the front paste-down. A vertical crease to the half title page - by the spine. Several page corners have been turned. A good plus tight, clean copy.
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- Bookseller
- Trumpington Fine Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 230222
- Title
- The Shooting Man's Bedside Book
- Author
- B.B"; Watkins-Pitchford, D
- Illustrator
- Watkins-Pitchford, Denys; "B.B
- Format/Binding
- Green Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Eyre & Spottiswoode ( Publishers) Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾&quo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- SHOOTING
Terms of Sale
Trumpington Fine Books Limited
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- 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...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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