Modern Development of the Dry Fly
by HALFORD, FREDERIC M
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
Houghton, Mifflin & Co 1923. Scarce in d/w, super octavo, red buckram boards with black lettering on white spine label, frontispiece with tissue guard, viii + 219pp, illustrated incl 43 plates, VG+ (slight rubbing to spine extrems and board corners, ex libris label to front pastedown, browning to eps, browning to tissue guards) in VG+ d/w (fading & tanning, chipping to edges, corners & spine extrems)
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- Title
- Modern Development of the Dry Fly
- Author
- HALFORD, FREDERIC M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin & Co 1923
- Keywords
- Frederic M Halford fishing sport outdoors dry fly wet fly fly tying colour charts
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...