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UPLAND GAME BIRD SHOOTING IN AMERICA
by WAGSTAFF, DAVID, ET AL
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Moderate Corner and Edge Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930. Limited to 850 copies. Five full-page color plates with tissue-guards and numerous plates in black and white. Edited by Eugene V. Connett. Spine extremities are frayed with some loss of cloth. Bottom of rear cover shows old water-staining. Please see photos. Frontispiece has small water-stain at bottom free corner. The plate and tissue-guard are foxed. Other plates are clean. Siegel 45. 249pp.. First Edition. Brown Cloth. Moderate Corner and Edge Wear/No Jacket. Large Quarto.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014129
- Title
- UPLAND GAME BIRD SHOOTING IN AMERICA
- Author
- WAGSTAFF, DAVID, ET AL
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Moderate Corner and Edge Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Derrydale Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Size
- Large Quarto
- Keywords
- Derrydale, Bird Hunting
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- First Edition
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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.,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
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