THE RIFLE AND THE HOUND IN CEYLON
by Baker, Sir Samuel W
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- V.g.
- Seller
-
Yaxley, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Longman, Green, and Co., 1892. xxiii 353 pages, 5 plates inc. frontis. 32pp pub. cat. dated 5/97. Lacking front free end-paper otherwise complete. The first edition had been pub. twenty years earlier. This updated edition alos has a new preface by the author. Burgandy cloth, with silver titles to the front and spine. Ink stamp to the upper conrer of the title-page with Ceylon Stationers Bookstall Syndicate and price. A nice copy in the original binding with a clean and tight text-block. Scarce.. New Edition. Hardback. V.g.. 8vo.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Pa694
- Title
- THE RIFLE AND THE HOUND IN CEYLON
- Author
- Baker, Sir Samuel W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - V.g.
- Edition
- New Edition
- Publisher
- Longman, Green, and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Shooting, Hunting.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sport;
Terms of Sale
Thomas Rare Books
7 day return if mis-described
About the Seller
Thomas Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Yaxley, Suffolk
About Thomas Rare Books
Out-of-print books and maps
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....