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Vets Might Fly.: Drawings by Larry.
by HERRIOT, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Michael Joseph,, 1976. First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Stephen, with best wishes, James Herriot". James Herriot was the pen name of James Alfred Wight (1916-1995), a country veterinary surgeon serving Yorkshire farmers for some 50 years, beginning in 1937. He is best known as the author of a series of eight books about veterinary practice, animals, and their owners. Set in the Yorkshire Dales of the 1930s to 1950s, it began with If Only They Could Talk (1970). The series was adapted for television as All Creatures Great and Small. Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Line-drawing illustrations to the text. Spine cocked, head bumped, edges foxed, internally clean; unclipped jacket edges a little creased: a very good copy in like jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 171794
- Title
- Vets Might Fly.
- Author
- HERRIOT, James
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Michael Joseph,
- Date Published
- 1976
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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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...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
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