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WHAT THE TROUT SAID ABOUT THE DESIGN OF TROUT FLIES AND OTHER MYSTERIES
by PROPER, DATUS C
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine ./No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1995. All edges gilt. Covers and spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Sewn-in silk bookmark. Color illustrated frontispiece. Drawings by Bill Elliott.Drawings of flies in black and white throughout the text. Four-pages of flies in full color. A crisp and clean copy. From the Easton Press Library of Fly-fishing Classics. The book was first published in 1982. 286pp.. Collector's Edition. Full Blue Leather. Fine ./No Dust Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015259
- Title
- WHAT THE TROUT SAID ABOUT THE DESIGN OF TROUT FLIES AND OTHER MYSTERIES
- Author
- PROPER, DATUS C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine .
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Collector's Edition
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Angling, Fishing, Fine Binding
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.
Glossary
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- Fine
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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....
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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