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Cross Country With Horse and Hound
by Frank Peer
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Fair. J. Crawford Wood. A fair to good first edition signed by the author on the USS Minnehaha, August 30, 1903. Red cloth pictorial boards with title in white. Title has worn away in part of the words "Cross Country." Head and tail of spine showng a tear and heavy shelf wear, spine cover starting to seperate at rear joint. Rubbing to joints.Corners bumped. Cream end papers unmarked. No foxing. Previous owner's inscription and author's inscription inked on first free blank leaf. Frontis tissue protects a beautiful color litho of a hound. Deckle fore and bottom edge, top edge gilt. Binding is solid and square. Illustrated with litho plates, some in color. 352 pp. Large octavo, 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 309
- Title
- Cross Country With Horse and Hound
- Author
- Frank Peer
- Illustrator
- J. Crawford Wood
- Format/Binding
- Pictorial boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- equestrian, horse, riding, hunting, foxes, hounds, english, horseback, minnehaha
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Gridley, California
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About Uncommon Works, IOBA
Member, IOBA. Not your ordinary book store! Uncommon Works specializes in rare, odd, unique, and handmade books, with a focus on the Maya, Latin America, Native America, and the Spanish Conquest. You'll find rare, first editions and first or early printings. You'll even find a few first printings of living authors for sale. We provide services and referrals for book mending, repair, restoration, and binding.
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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