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Fowler's Moon
by Nigel Thornycroft / Corona (Illust.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Very Good
- Seller
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1955. 1st Edition . Very Good Plus/Very Good. 5.5 x 8 inches (14 x 20 cm). Dust jacket: Wear and slight loss to corners of front cover. Slight wear to ends of spine. Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: First printing. Red cloth binding with gilt illustration to front board. Slight crease in cloth to lower corner of front board. Light foxing to page edges. Offsetting and light foxing to endpapers, very clean text throughout. A very nice example of the rare first edition, complete with the attractive jacket. Overall book condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 5.5 x 8 inches (14 x 20 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 191
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tarrington Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1210E300
- Title
- Fowler's Moon
- Author
- Nigel Thornycroft / Corona (Illust.)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Size
- 5.5 x 8 inches (14 x 20 cm)
- Keywords
- Wildfowling, Goose, Geese, Hunting, Wildfowl, Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Hunting & Shooting;
Terms of Sale
Tarrington Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Tarrington Books
Biblio member since 2015
Tarrington, Herefordshire
About Tarrington Books
A family run bookshop located in the heart of rural Herefordshire. Large selection of children's literature, crime fiction, military, history, travel, vintage paperbacks, quality antiquarian volumes & fine bindings. We offer free UK postage on all items and pride ourselves on our safe packaging and rapid dispatch of orders. Browsers welcome by appointment.
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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...
- 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...
- 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....
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
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