The Devon and Somerset Staghounds 1907-1936
by Macdermot, E.T
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Plus/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Sorn, East Ayrshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Collins, 1936. First Edition. Red Cloth. Good Plus/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Edwards, Lionel. Type: Z 96pp. 1936. First edition. A good plus copy of this rare sporting book. No wrapper. Nine full page colour plates after the art work of Lionel Edwards, 17 photographs and 15 black and white illustrations as called for. No inscriptions. Original publisher's cloth. Gilt embossed title to the spine. A gilt embossed vignette of a stag to the front board. The cloth spine a little faded. Some light mottling or surface rubbing to the rear board. Two thirds of the front endpaper has been torn away and is missing. No loss of text. Insect damage (probably silverfish) to the head of the front paste-down and corner of the rear paste-down and rear endpaper (with loss to the corner). Slight scattered foxing - chiefly to the endpapers - but largely free from foxing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Trumpington Fine Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 227838
- Title
- The Devon and Somerset Staghounds 1907-1936
- Author
- Macdermot, E.T
- Illustrator
- Edwards, Lionel
- Format/Binding
- Red Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1936
- Size
- Folio - over 12" - 15"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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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...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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