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Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
by Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1920. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. including index, A couple of black and white illustrations decorate the text. Green coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Contents --Fisherman's luck -- The thrilling moment -- Talkability -- A wild strawberry -- Lovers and landscape -- A fatal success -- Fishing in books -- A Norwegian honeymoon -- Who owns the mountains? -- A lazy, idle brook -- The open fire -- A slumber song. The edges of the text block half foxed, offset tanning of the free end pages, fading of the right-hand side of the rear panel, the spine and the left-hand side of the front panel, blind stamped front panel. A neat tidy copy probably printed in 1920 or thereabouts, because it includes listed in other books by the author Fighting for Peace which 1st saw the light of day in 1917. Size: 12mo (Small Hardcover). [4], 5 - 255, [1] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 0232741. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0232741
- Title
- Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
- Author
- Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Fishing, fictional, Religious Fiction; Unbranded Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933 Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
Glossary
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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