American Fishes: a Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North America
by G. Brown Goode
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Waccabuc, New York, United States
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About This Item
L.C. Page and Co., Boston, 1903. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Thick, 562 pg. octavo. 1903 reissue in the RARE dustjacket of the 1887 original ed. 6 handsome colored plated and numerous rich black and whites. A VG copy with a moderately faded spine in an impressive, VG dustjacket with minor chipping to top edges of the dustjacket. The jacket has held up remarkably well given its 1903 vintage.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 520
- Title
- American Fishes: a Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North America
- Author
- G. Brown Goode
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- L.C. Page and Co., Boston
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- ICHTHYOLOGY, RARE FISHING
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sports;
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About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
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Waccabuc, New York
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Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...