GAMONIA: Or, The Art of Preserving Game; And an Improved Method of Making Plantations and Covers, Explained and Illustrated/The Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain and Coloured Books
by Rawstorne, Lawrence
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: Methuen & Company, 1905. 136 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ paper title label on spine. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed; spine ends bumped. Mild chipping to edges of title label. Light scattered foxing. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down and a picture of a man w/ a cane glued down to front blank endpaper; previous owner's name (which is faded) on second front blank endpaper. Illust. w/ 15 coloured drawings taken on the spot. Contents nice.. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by J. T. Rawlins. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19396HUNT
- Title
- GAMONIA: Or, The Art of Preserving Game; And an Improved Method of Making Plantations and Covers, Explained and Illustrated/The Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain and Coloured Books
- Author
- Rawstorne, Lawrence
- Illustrator
- J. T. Rawlins
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- Methuen & Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1905
- Keywords
- SPORTS HUNTING GAME ANIMALS SHOOTING GAMONIA PRESERVING GAME PLANTATIONS COVERS PENWORTHAM GAME RESERVES WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT GAME PROTECTION NATURE WILD LIFE WILDLIFE OUTDOORS RECREATION WORLD HISTORY GREAT BRITAIN EUROPE NONFICTION GENERAL ILLUSTRATED RA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animals; Sports; Sports - Hunting; Hunting;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
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