FISHING WITH THE FLY: SKETCHES BY LOVERS OF THE ART WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF STANDARD FLIES
by Orvis, Charles F. and A. Nelson Cheney
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1889 2024-03-27. later printing . Hardcover. Good. 325 pp.; color plates throughout, original pictorial cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, 8vo.: Hinges cracked, binding shook/cocked, front free endpaper detached, title page glued along gutter edge to verso with a 1" closed tear to title page along bottom of same edge, soiling/dampstaining/fading to cloth, chipping/fraying to spine ends, no ownership markings: Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.
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- Bookseller
- Resource for Art and Music Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 240327001
- Title
- FISHING WITH THE FLY: SKETCHES BY LOVERS OF THE ART WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF STANDARD FLIES
- Author
- Orvis, Charles F. and A. Nelson Cheney
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- later printing
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1889 2024-03-27
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About Resource for Art and Music Books
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Gilt
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- Title Page
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cracked
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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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