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Sporting Adventure with Thirteen Photogravure Plates and Fifty Line Drawings by "Fish-Hawk"
by Day, James Wentworth
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Putnam's Hard cover. Published NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, no date, circa 1937, bound up with the English shhets, printed in Great Britain. Small 4to., 288pp., illustrations throughout. Green cloth with gilt cover design and faded titles. Spine sunned, covers faded around edges, else very good, clean, sturdy.. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007993
- Title
- Sporting Adventure with Thirteen Photogravure Plates and Fifty Line Drawings by "Fish-Hawk"
- Author
- Day, James Wentworth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Putnam's
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature;
- Size
- 4to
Terms of Sale
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Returnable within 10 days.
About the Seller
The Wild Muse
Biblio member since 2005
Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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