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Bob: The Spaniel. The True Story of a Springer
by Wagstaff, Blanche Shoemaker
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Original tan cloth, black lettering, covers a little worn and soiled, front free endpaper excised, else internally fine. With th
- Seller
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HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: G. Howard Watt, 1927. First Edition. Photographic frontispiece of author and subject. 1 vols. 12mo. Original tan cloth, black lettering, covers a little worn and soiled, front free endpaper excised, else internally fine. With three autograph letters, signed, by the author laid in. First Edition. Photographic frontispiece of author and subject. 1 vols. 12mo. Affectionate recollections of the author's springer spaniel, by the sister of famed sporting book collector David Wagstaff. Included are three warm notes, signed, to Adelaide Baylis, enclosed in an envelope mounted on the rear paste-down, on social matters, one bearing the interesting postscript, "What do you think of the new theory of art (Houseman) that it is a matter of secretion? I should say endocrine exuberance?". Jones, A Bibliography of the Dog, 3268
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- Seller
- The Old Mill Bookshop
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 12927
- Title
- Bob: The Spaniel. The True Story of a Springer
- Author
- Wagstaff, Blanche Shoemaker
- Format/Binding
- Photographic frontispiece of author and subject. 1 vols. 12mo
- Book Condition
- Used - Original tan cloth, black lettering, covers a little worn and soiled, front free endpaper excised, else internally fine. With th
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G. Howard Watt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- Dogs
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About The Old Mill Bookshop
Founded in 1978 by James Cummins, the firm has grown to include two New Jersey locations as well as the main store at 699 Madison Avenue. The Madison avenue store is an oasis for book-lovers, a quiet and pleasantly furnished book room with a carefully chosen, expertly catalogued and broad-based selection of fine and rare books, autographs, manuscripts, and works of art.
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- 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...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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