Sporting Guns
by Akehurst, Richard
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair to Good
- ISBN 10
- 0706401034
- ISBN 13
- 9780706401035
- Seller
-
Buttaba, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, England: Octopus Books Limited, 1972. Book. Good. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover with pictorial boards replicated on the dust jacket, First Edition, 575gms, 96 pages, orange coloured endpapers. This richly illustrated book by Richard Akehurst traces the development of sporting guns and fowling related to contemporary history from the sixteenth century up to the present day. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear . Dust Jacket is in fair to good condition with moderate shelf wear, chipping, soiling, fading, and several small tears, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Attached picture is of actual book. Purchase more than 1 item and save money with combined postage. And if you can't find the title you're looking for - why not ask us direct. With over 30,000 books in stock we can't list them all!.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Reading Habit (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WARGUN16
- Title
- Sporting Guns
- Author
- Akehurst, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair to Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0706401034
- ISBN 13
- 9780706401035
- Publisher
- Octopus Books Limited
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- SPORTING GUNS; GUNS- SPORTING; SPORTS- SHOOTING- GUNS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Guns/Weaponry;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Buttaba, New South Wales
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Glossary
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...