Tales of Quails ’N Such: A Collection of Hunting and Fishing Stories
by Babcock, Havilah
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Boise, Idaho, United States
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About This Item
Full tan cloth covered boards. Signed by author "Best Wishes!" Good in good dust jacket. Small bookplate of Jeffrey Norton, noted bookseller and collector on front pastedown. Damp stain to lower front board near spine and extending to lower third of rear board, heel of spine no longer crisp. Dust jacket is price clipped and has light chipping to head and heel of spine panel and wear to flap folds.
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- Bookseller
- Last Word Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1672
- Title
- Tales of Quails ’N Such
- Author
- Babcock, Havilah
- Illustrator
- William J. Schaldach
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Greenberg: Publisher
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Pages
- 237
- Size
- 9.25 X 6.25”
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Hunting and Fishing
- Bookseller catalogs
- The Great Outdoors;
Terms of Sale
Last Word Books LLC
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
Last Word Books LLC
Biblio member since 2021
Boise, Idaho
About Last Word Books LLC
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Bookplate
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- Price Clipped
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- 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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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