Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of All the Indoor Games Played at the Present Day With Suggestions for Good Play, a Full Code of Laws. Illustrative Hands. And a Brief Statement of the Doctrine of Chance as Applied to Games
by Foster, R.F
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Long Beach, Washington, United States
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About This Item
London: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1897 625 numbered pp +1; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight; a.e. tanned/dusty, lacks ffep and lfep, front pastedown scuffed, PO info inked front ep, front hinges sprung in several locations. Cover: olive, game artwork front, gilt titles front/spine; substantial shelfwear, extrems worn, cover scratched, cover spotted, spine rubbed and tanned. Not a pretty girl, but a fairly scarce first edition.
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- Bookseller
- Independent Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 032262
- Title
- Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of All the Indoor Games Played at the Present Day With Suggestions for Good Play, a Full Code of Laws. Illustrative Hands. And a Brief Statement of the Doctrine of Chance as Applied to Games
- Author
- Foster, R.F
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1897
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- games, Reference
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Glossary
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- 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...