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The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting
by Lewis, Elisha J
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Company, 1857. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 510 pages. Hardcover in brown publisher's cloth with title in gilt on front cover and other designs in blind. The binding shows heavy wear. Corners are bumped, rubbed down to boards. Spine is damped/wrinkled, with fraying and tearing at headcap/foot. Endpapers are foxed. Front pastedown has smudging and a stamped name. Prior owner's name is written three times on front flyleaf. "James McKee - Raleigh NC" Name is written again on second front flyleaf. Text is foxed. Some dog-eared pages.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051242
- Title
- The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting
- Author
- Lewis, Elisha J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott and Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1857
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1857; Elisha J Lewis; Sportsman; Antiquarian; Animals; Dogs; Birds; Hunting; James McKee; Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
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