A Hunter's Adventure In The Great West by Gillmore, Parker (Ubique): - 1871

Ayer Company Publishers, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1888. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1888. No Edition Remarks. 234 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Half bound leather with brown cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrated frontispiece and illustrations. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Moderate crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate peeling to spine and corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Visible wear marks to boards.

Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, London, Paris, and in New York, No date. Reprint. Hardcover (Illustrated Boards). Poor Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Illustrated. preface by Parker Gillmore, list of full page illustrations introduction by author and index. Black and white illustrated frontispiece, showing Hawking In the Middle Ages, which is protected by a tissue guard that has become somewhat browned and foxed. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white illustrations (307) of which 21 are full-page. Blue coloured textured cloth covered boards with gilt illustration to the front panel and gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. A carefully revised second edition of a work that was first published in circa 1870, ( this preface is dated January 1873). An early book on birds and reptiles and their common ancestry and how they diverged using the radical theory put forth by Charles Darwin. This book is in really sad shape, but would be suitable for rebinding. Heavy bumping, rubbing… Read More

Hurst and Blackett, 1873. Hardcover. Good. 1873. No Edition Remarks. 267 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Volume 2. Black and white frontispiece. Binding remains firm. Crinkling to pages at gutters. Pages are moderately tanned throughout. Thumb marking present. Occasional foxing. Hinges are cracked with netting exposed. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. There is bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges. Gilt lettering is darkened. Book has a slight forward lean.

Harper & Brothers, 1874. Hardcover. Good. . Some rubbing/shelf wear. Pages tanned but clean.

London, UK: W.H. Allen & Co, 1881. Pages: 305; Weight: 1lb 5.8oz; Size: 7.9" x 5.5" x 1.7". Cover has considerable edgewear, bumped and chipped corners, slightly frayed spine ends, gilding is dull on the spine, bright on front cover, name on front endpaper, binding is coming loose but all pages are present and clean, otherwise clean, unmarked.. Illus. by Alfred T. Elwes. Fair. Hard Cover. . . .

London: Gibbings and Co., 1896. 2nd Ed.. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 341 pages. Hardcover with blue cloth covers with black and gilt design. An ex-library but aside from spine stickers and bookplate, a remarkably clean, tight copy. Doesn't appear to be a circulating copy. Tales of hunting throughout the world, but mostly in America, from snipe shooting to wolf coursing. Includes several fishing chapters; salmon in Japan, black and striped bass, grey mullet, brook trout and muskies, with a final chapter on artificial stocking of lakes and rivers. Record # 900185

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HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.