Fencing, Boxing and Wrestling : - The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes
by Walter H. Pollock, F. C. Grove, Camille Prevost, E. B. Mitchell, Walter Armstrong
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1897. The book is finely bound in half leather, brown morocco spine and corners with five raised gilt ruled bands on the spine, gilt title lettering, top edge gilt.Marbled papered boards, and marbled endpapers. xiii, 304 pages.Illustrated with reproduced engravings ( intaglio plates and woodcuts) and photographs. " Illustrations from instantaneous photographs". 5.5 X 7.5 inches. The leather shoulder on the front board is stamped "Vancroft Farm" in gilt. and the original owner's name stamp is across the top of the fly leaf, also again on the back of one of the plates within the book.There are some very few scuffs and rubbing to the leather corners.Very good, and very clean throughout, with a very sound and solid binding.. Fourth Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Jacques Gander
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009271
- Title
- Fencing, Boxing and Wrestling : - The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes
- Author
- Walter H. Pollock, F. C. Grove, Camille Prevost, E. B. Mitchell, Walter Armstrong
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Fourth Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1897
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Jacques Gander
Biblio member since 2004
Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire
About Jacques Gander
Out of print, rare and used books. Internet and mail order.
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- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
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