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Big Stony
by Walden III, Howard T
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
-
Wilmington, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1940. First edition, limited to 550 copies. Cloth. Very good. (1940). Duodecimo (4 3/4" x 7"), navy cloth, gilt, with an oval lozenge with an illustration of a creel with fish, top center. Corners illustrated with trout flies. Top edge gilt. 401pp. Illustrated by Milton C. Weiler. This is copy number 499 of 550. Very good with some offsetting from on the endpapers, probably from a jacket having been taped on. faint stain on the top edge. A little surface wear on the cover, barely noticeable. Some leaves unopened. A lovely copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Austin's Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19440
- Title
- Big Stony
- Author
- Walden III, Howard T
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, limited to 550 copies
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Derrydale Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fly Fishing; Fishing; Sporting; Angling; Outdoor Sports;
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About the Seller
Austin's Antiquarian Books
Biblio member since 2005
Wilmington, Vermont
About Austin's Antiquarian Books
Austin's Antiquarian Books is a used, rare and out of print bookshop located on West Main Street in Wilmington, Vermont. At our shop we have a general stock of approximately 15,000 used, scarce and out-of-print books, with particular strength in American History, especially Theodore Roosevelt the West, Travel, Decorative Arts, Natural History, and Sporting. We also offer a selection of antique maps and prints, historical paper and ephemera.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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