Fur, Feather and Fin Series (12 Volume Set Complete)
by Watson, Alfred E. T. (Ed. )
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
North Tonawanda, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Longmans, Green & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1898. Limited Edition. Hardcover. #151 of 157 limited, numbered sets ("Large Paper" edition). Ex-library with usual marks. Quarter vellum and pale green cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spines. Shallow dents to some board edges. Moderate edgewear, soil and rubbing. Corners and spine ends bumped. Call number labels to lower spine ends, three spines just have ~1.25'' blank spaces where labels fell off and took away the top layer of vellum. Bookplates to front pastedowns and/or ffeps of most vols. Bindings tender in places, text clean. Moderate foxing to pastedowns and first/last few pages. Illustrated in b/w. Scarce in any condition as a complete set. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .
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Details
- Seller
- Old Editions Inc.
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 6858
- Title
- Fur, Feather and Fin Series (12 Volume Set Complete)
- Author
- Watson, Alfred E. T. (Ed. )
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green & Company
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- Animals, Natural History, Limited Edition, Numbered, Hunting, Fishing
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History / General;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Old Editions Inc.
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About the Seller
Old Editions Inc.
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North Tonawanda, New York
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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