WOODCOCK
by Knight, John Alden
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/No jacket
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York:Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. Limited edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Signed by author. New York:Alfred A. Knopf. 1944. Limited, signed edition, No.160 of 275 copies, signed by the Author and Illustrator on the limitation page, with an extra color plate. xi+161pp+iipp. Illustrated, with color plates from paintings by Dr. Edgar Burke. Green boards lightly sun-faded along top edges. Top pages gilt. Internally a very good, clean copy. All plates present but top edges are lightly age-toned. An extra color plate, not called for, is bound at page 140. The binding is tight and hinges intact. No slip case.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25247
- Title
- WOODCOCK
- Author
- Knight, John Alden
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York:Alfred A. Knopf
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- NATURE; THE AMERICAN WOODCOCK; JOHN ALDEN KNIGHT; DR. EDGAR BURKE
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
Massachusetts residents must add 6.25% state sales tax. Methods of payment: Visa, MC, Discover, Check. Postage. USPS Media Mail is $4.00 for first book, $1.00 for each additional book. UPS and USPS Priority will be at cost. Some books, as noted in offerings, will be at cost. Overseas postage will be at cost. All items returnable with prior arrangement up to 10 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
Biblio member since 2016
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Slip Case
- A protective sleeve, often made of decorative cardboard or leather which houses a book. It is open on one end, so as to allow...