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The Angler's Companion. The Lore of Fishing
by Murphy, Brian
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0709205139
- ISBN 13
- 9780709205135
- Seller
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Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand
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About This Item
New York & London: Paddington Press Ltd, 1978. Cream cloth, gilt text on spine. Illustrated endpapers. 352pp. Foxed text block edges. Contents clean and tight. Unclipped DJ has sunned spine. A treasury of the finest fishing writing of all time. Contains a rich and entertaining variety of angling stories, anecdotes, poems and articles by an impressive array of the world's greatest writers. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- All Booked
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Angler's Companion. The Lore of Fishing
- Author
- Murphy, Brian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0709205139
- ISBN 13
- 9780709205135
- Publisher
- Paddington Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- New York & London
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Fishing Stories Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fishing;
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
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