Travel and Big Game
por Percy Selous
- Usado
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Livreiro
-
Warwick, New York, United States
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Sobre este item
Bellairs, London, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. SELOUS, PERCY, and BRYDEN, H.A. Travel and Big Game, London: Bellairs and Co., 1897. Quarto, first edition, pp. 196, 6 plates of drawings, green cloth boards with beveled edges, gilt lettering on top and spine, gilt palm tree on spine, black drawing of a hunter on top. Mostly written by Selous but with chapters on giraffe and zebra hunting by Bryden. Covers hunting in Africa and North America. Six illustrations by Charles Whymper show game animals with vaguely human expressions on their faces. Scarce. Condition of this book: Boards rubbed at extremities, chipping at head and tail of spine. Leaves clean and tight, free front endpaper has embossed ID of W.H. Smith & Son. Size: Quarto. 196. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Britain/UK; 19th century; Travel & Places. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50745. .
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Rarities etc.
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 50745
- Título
- Travel and Big Game
- Autor
- Percy Selous
- Formato/Encadernação
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Very Good Condition
- Condição de sobrecapa
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Editorial
- Bellairs
- Local de publicação
- London
- Data de publicação
- 1897
- Palavras-chave
- BZDB17 giraffe hunting Antiquarian & Rare; Britain/UK; 19th century; Travel & Places. Percy Selous Travel and Big Game
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
