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THE BIG GAME FISHES OF THE UNITED STATES
by Holder, Charles Frederick
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
-
Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: The MacMillan Co.. Very Good+. 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition: #28 of 100 large paper copies from The American Sportsman's Library, edited by Caspar Whitney. Three-quarters brown morrocco over marbled boards with 5 spine bands and gilt decoration & lettering. Matching marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt with deckle cut page edges. [xiv, 1, 435pp]. 41 pages of illustrations: 8 color drawings (including frontispiece) by F. W. Mielatz, each with titled tissue-guard; 14 tissue protected b/w photographs and 19 b/w drawings/diagrams. Text and hinges tight & intact. Leaves clean without foxing. A few light cover/edge scuffs. Early owner's bookplate "MASON W. ZIMMERMAN, PHILADELPHIA". Fishing, sports. ; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 435 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17742
- Title
- THE BIG GAME FISHES OF THE UNITED STATES
- Author
- Holder, Charles Frederick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The MacMillan Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- Fishing, Angling
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Books are conservatively described. Full refund within 20 days. Books mailed upon notification of sale. Books sold by direct payment to bookseller will be shipped after receipt of check or notice of payment through paypal. If your book are heavy or oversized, we may contact you for additional shipping. All books/ephemera are securely packaged to assure safe arrival at their destination. All books for sale are in-stock on premises.
About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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