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The Practical Kennel Guide With Plain Instructions How to Rear and Breed Dogs for Pleasure, Show and Profit.
by STABLES, GORDON:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London & New York, Cassell Petter & Galpin, ca1878. Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and blind paneled boards. Yellow endpapers with printed adverts. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to cloth on corners and edges of spine, else cover clean and smart. Endpapers bright, small neat previous owners’ stamp to halftitle “W.A. Wallis, Basingstoke.” Minor tanning to frontis plate (tissue guarded.) Some occasional light foxing to pages else pages clean and tight. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 204pp + advert cat at rear (dated 9/78.) Illustrated with a B&W frontis plate and 13 B&W figures & diagrams in text.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 95217
- Title
- The Practical Kennel Guide With Plain Instructions How to Rear and Breed Dogs for Pleasure, Show and Profit.
- Author
- STABLES, GORDON:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London & New York, Cassell Petter & Galpin, ca1878
- Keywords
- NATURAL HISTORY::DOGS Canines, Dogs, The Practical Kennel Guide, breeding and rearing, 1878, pets, animals, domestic, training, care
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The Antique Map & Bookshop
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Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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