Angling Songs
by Stoddart, Thomas Tod
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, owner bookplate on front pastedown, shaken, one page has tape repairs along top corner.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh And London: William Blackwood and Sons. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, owner bookplate on front pastedown, . shaken, one page has tape repairs along top corner.. 1889. Hardcover. With a memoir by Anna M. Stoddart. Olive cloth binding with titles stamped in black on front boards and in gilt on spine. Engraved portrait of the author flyfishing by Chas. Laurie as frontispiece. ix, 324 pp, 47 pp of publisher's adverts at rear. A memoir of the Scottish angler by his daughter, followed by a collection of verse about angling and the outdoors. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34108
- Title
- Angling Songs
- Author
- Stoddart, Thomas Tod
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, owner bookplate on front pastedown, shaken, one page has tape repairs along top corner.
- Publisher
- William Blackwood and Sons
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh And London
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- Angling Literature, Flyfishing
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Sports;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- Cloth
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- A.N.
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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...