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Outing: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Recreation. Vol. VI; April 1885- September 1885
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Wilmington, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Boston: The Wheelman Company, 1885. First edition. Three-quarter leather. Very good. Thick quarto (6.5" x 9.75"), three quarter brown leather and brown pebbled cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. 767, (i) pp. Profusely illustrated with drawings and reproductions of illustrations and engravings. A little wear at the corners and some scuffing on the joints. Fron paste-down endpaper has a bookbinder's tag from J. Westwood Book-Binder Springfield, Mass. Very good, solid, clean copy. A miscellany of interesting articles including: Adirondack Forests;Winning & Keeping the America's Cup; Chicago Bicycle Club's 1200 Mile Tour; Across America on a Bicycle; Capt. Bourke's "With General Crook in the Sierra Madre"; Antelope on the Highlands of New Mexico; Harvard-Yale Boating Races; A Plea for Bar Harbor; Fishing, Bikinng, Rowing; Yachting; Tennis; Canoeing; Camping; Summer Days Along (Lake) Champlain; Women on Cycling. Much more.
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- Bookseller
- Austin's Antiquarian Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19451
- Title
- Outing: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Recreation. Vol. VI; April 1885- September 1885
- Format/Binding
- Three-quarter leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Wheelman Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1885
- Weight
- 0.00
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Austin's Antiquarian Books
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Wilmington, Vermont
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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.
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- 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...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- 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....
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
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