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The Archer's Craft: A Sheaf of Notes on Certain Matters Concerning Archers and Archery, the Making of Archers' Tackle and the Art of Hunting With the Bow
by Hodgkin, Adrian Eliot
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Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, 1993. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Adrian Eliot Hodgkin. Signed by Author. SIGNED by Glenn St. Charles, Commissioner of the Legends of the Longbow Library and Founder of the Pope and Young Club. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Green textured leather covers with gilt lettering and illustration to front and spine, all edges gilt quite finely. Decorated endpapers. Replete with black-and-white illustrations, facsimile and photographs. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Apparently unread, spine still crackles. Frontis matter, 2-222 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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- Title
- The Archer's Craft: A Sheaf of Notes on Certain Matters Concerning Archers and Archery, the Making of Archers' Tackle and the Art of Hunting With the Bow
- Author
- Hodgkin, Adrian Eliot
- Illustrator
- Adrian Eliot Hodgkin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Derrydale Press
- Place of Publication
- Lyon, Mississippi
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 8vo 8" - 9" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Derrydale Press Legends of the Longbow archery Adrian Eliot Hodgkin English history English culture signed Glenn St. Charles
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