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British Game (New Naturalist series, No. 2)
by Vesey-Fitzgerald, Brian
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK : Collins, 1946. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition, first printing. xiv, 24opp plus numerous black and white and colour plate illustrations. In green cloth covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Cloth is rubbed and rounded on corners and spine ends, mildly marked and faded, sunned a little on spine. Some spotting on text block edges and endpapers only. Previous owner's details on front free endpaper, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original worn and torn dust jacket, rubbed at edges and folds, marked, crumbling on corners and spine ends with loss along upper edges and around spine head; old tape repair on verso. Dust jacket now protected in an archival quality Mylar wrapper fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015386
- Title
- British Game (New Naturalist series, No. 2)
- Author
- Vesey-Fitzgerald, Brian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Impression
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1946
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Game Birds, Wildfowl, Deer, Gamekeepers
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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