SPORT OF OUR ANCESTORS: Being a Collection of Prose and Verse Setting Forth the Sport of Fox-Hunting As They Knew It
by De Broke, Lord Willoughby (Editor) [Richard Greville Verney, Baron Willoughby de Broke]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ to Very Good-/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1921. 280 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine, and gilt decoration on front cover. Spine sunned. Corners and spine ends bumped. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Natural toning to blank endpapers. Rear inner hinge starting. Light scattered foxing. Illust. w/ 20 tipped-in plates (4 of which are in color).. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+ to Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by G. D. Armour. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10473SPEQ
- Title
- SPORT OF OUR ANCESTORS: Being a Collection of Prose and Verse Setting Forth the Sport of Fox-Hunting As They Knew It
- Author
- De Broke, Lord Willoughby (Editor) [Richard Greville Verney, Baron Willoughby de Broke]
- Illustrator
- G. D. Armour
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ to Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Constable and Company Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1921
- Keywords
- SPORTS EQUESTRIAN EQUINE EQUITATION FOX HUNTING ANIMALS HORSES HORSE LITERATURE POETRY POEMS POETS PROSE VERSE POETIC WORKS POETICAL WORKS LITERARY WORKS OUTDOORS RECREATION GENERAL ILLUSTRATED ARMOUR G. D.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animals; Sports - Equestrian; Sports; Sports - Hunting; Hunting; Poetry; Literature/Poetry;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
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- Good+
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