GAME FISHES OF THE NORTHERN STATES OF AMERICA, AND BRITISH ISLES
by Barnwell (Robert Barnwell Roosevelt)
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/No jacket
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York:Carleton, Publisher, 1862. First Edition. hard cover. New/No jacket. New York:Carleton, Publisher. 1862. 1st edition. 324pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Brown blind stamped boards lightly soiled and shelfworn, with sun-fading to bottom edges and spine strip. Gilt on spine strip completely rubbed. Internally brown end-papers clean, with a small previous owners bookplate to inside front board and a bookseller ticket to inside rear board. There is an old damp stain to lower quarter of first couple pages which becomes progressively smaller and less noticable as you turn the pages, completely disappearing by page192. Besides the stain, a very good, clean copy. The binding is tight and hinges intact. *Author was Uncle of Theodore Roosevelt.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25405
- Title
- GAME FISHES OF THE NORTHERN STATES OF AMERICA, AND BRITISH ISLES
- Author
- Barnwell (Robert Barnwell Roosevelt)
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York:Carleton, Publisher
- Date Published
- 1862
- Keywords
- FISHING; GAME FISHES; UNITED STATES; BRITISH ISLES;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
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