Trail and Camp-Fire: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club
by George Bird Grinnell and Theodore Roosevelt [editors]
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1898. First U.K. Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Green cloth binding, maroon endpapers, titles stamped in gilt on spine, top edge gilt, rough cut fore-edge, frontispiece portrait of General B.H. Bristow, 13 plates which include 2 maps, 353 pages. Originally published by Forest and Stream in 1897, scarce in both the American and U.K. printings. Chapters on the Labrador Peninsula, An African Shooting Trip, Wolves and Wolf Nature, On the Little Missouri, Bear Traits, a list of books on Big Game, Constitution of the Boone and Crockett Club with tipped in revision omitting the Wolf from the list of American large game and other interesting chapters. Some spotting to the covers, corners rubbed, short tears to cloth at head and tail of spine. Book now protected by a clear acetate dust jacket.
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- 008558
- Title
- Trail and Camp-Fire: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club
- Author
- George Bird Grinnell and Theodore Roosevelt [editors]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.K. Edition
- Publisher
- David Douglas
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- HUNTING BIG GAME SAFARI
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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