THE GENERAL; OR, TWELVE NIGHTS IN THE HUNTER'S CAMP.
by BARROW, WILLIAMS
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- General Moderate Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869. Gilt spine, rubbed. Accounts of every sort of activity of outdoor life, based on the author's personal experiences. "I shall be happily content if my Prelude tempt any of my pale, Mondayish, clerical friends from the cloister, bookish life in which they are dying, to the grand hotels and promenades of tent and forest life for a season." Engraved plates and frontispiece. 268pp.. First Edition. Dark Maroon Cloth.. General Moderate Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001515
- Title
- THE GENERAL; OR, TWELVE NIGHTS IN THE HUNTER'S CAMP.
- Author
- BARROW, WILLIAMS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - General Moderate Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Lee and Shepard
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1869
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- AMERICANA CAMPING, SPORTING,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- 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
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- First Edition
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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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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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