UPLAND GAME BIRD SHOOTING IN AMERICA.
by Wagstaff, David; Arthur B. Lapsley; W. Arnold Hanger; Clarence H. Mackay; Erastus T. Tefft; Henry L. Ferguson; H.P. Sheldon; Paul A. Curtis; W. Averell Harriman; Lawrence B. Smith; Horace Lytle; P.N.B. Galwey-Foley; Wiliam E. Baker Jr.; Eugene V. Connett;
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good+ condition
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Derrydale Press, 1930. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto (4to). xxv, [iii], 249 pages of text including an index. Original brown hardcover cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration on the spine and front cover with minimal shelfwear. Minor spotting to the rear cover. The top edge of the closed page edges is coated in gilt, with the other page edges deckled. Approximately one dozen pages have small spots of brown foxing to the page edges or margins. Previous owner's bookplate neatly affixed to the inside front cover. Contains illustrations by Lynn Bogue Hunt, Edgar Burke, William J. Schaldach, Bert Cobb, and others. Limited to 850 copies. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..
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- Bookseller
- Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019867
- Title
- UPLAND GAME BIRD SHOOTING IN AMERICA.
- Author
- Wagstaff, David; Arthur B. Lapsley; W. Arnold Hanger; Clarence H. Mackay; Erastus T. Tefft; Henry L. Ferguson; H.P. Sheldon; Paul A. Curtis; W. Averell Harriman; Lawrence B. Smith; Horace Lytle; P.N.B. Galwey-Foley; Wiliam E. Baker Jr.; Eugene V. Connett;
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good+ condition
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Derrydale Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1930
- Size
- Quarto (4to)
Terms of Sale
Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA)
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About the Seller
Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA)
Biblio member since 2003
Chicago, Illinois
About Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA)
Primarily mail-order and shows; open bookstore only by appointment or invitation; select inventory of 30,000+ books, ephemera, autographs, maps and manuscript material. Most dustjackets protected in archival mylar. Many books without dustjackets protected in custom archival mylar. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), The Manuscript Society, and the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association (MWABA) (formerly the Midwest Bookhunters or MWBH). Proprietor: Kurt Gippert.
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- Edges
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- Good+
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- Bookplate
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- First Edition
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- Shelfwear
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- 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...
- Cloth
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- Gilt
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