Woodsmoke and Water Cress
by Lamb, Dana S
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine of slipcase damaged with split along half of one edge. ; Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper "for Vice Admiral Harold Hickling[. . .] top man, in my opinion, fresh of salt or on the beach!/ Dana J Lamb / [. . .] November 1965". This copy is No. 10 of an edition of 200 numbered copies "bound by hand in half-leather". 89, [2], [1 (blank)] pages. Page dimensions: 229 x 148mm. Top page edges gilt. With clear acetate jacket. With slipcase (damaged). Vice-Admiral Harold Hickling (1892-1969), to whom this copy is inscribed, was the author of the 1960 book "Freshwater Admiral: Fishing the Tongariro River and Lake Taupo". ; Signed by Author .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22126
- Title
- Woodsmoke and Water Cress
- Author
- Lamb, Dana S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Barre Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Barre, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- Fishing
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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