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FRANK FORESTER'S HORSE AND HORSEMANSHIP OF THE UNITED STATES AND BRITISH PROVINCES OF NORTH AMERICA (2 VOLUMES)
by Herbert, William Henry (Forester)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York - London: Stringer and Townsen. Very Good. 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. Original brown embossed cloth. Spines and front covers are embellished with gilt titles and horse scenes. Text's interiors are tight, clean and intact. All 14 steel engravings plus 2 half title pages are tissue protected. 57 wood cuts executed by N. Orr. All pages and engravings are clean and free of foxing. 552, 576pp. Pedigree charts. Tables of stock. Examples of extraordinary performances and winners by American Trotters. Conditions VG - G+. Cloth is slightly color faded at edges, fraying at spine ends and lightly rubbed front corners. A few pages are out of alignment but are tightly bound. Small chipped top & bottom edges of front endpaper. Sports , Trotters, Winning Horses, Horsemanship ; Steel & Wood Engravings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 1128 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16333
- Title
- FRANK FORESTER'S HORSE AND HORSEMANSHIP OF THE UNITED STATES AND BRITISH PROVINCES OF NORTH AMERICA (2 VOLUMES)
- Author
- Herbert, William Henry (Forester)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Stringer and Townsen
- Place of Publication
- New York - London
- Date Published
- 1857
- Keywords
- Sports, Horses
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Books are conservatively described. Full refund within 20 days. Books mailed upon notification of sale. Books sold by direct payment to bookseller will be shipped after receipt of check or notice of payment through paypal. If your book are heavy or oversized, we may contact you for additional shipping. All books/ephemera are securely packaged to assure safe arrival at their destination. All books for sale are in-stock on premises.
About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- G+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good. Good is defined as "describes the average used and worn book...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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