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Trout
by Bergman, Ray
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
The Penn Publishing Company, 1938. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No slipcase 1938 Penn Publishing Co. Number 130 of a Limited Edition of 149 copies. SIGNED by author on limitation page. Full leather binding, gilt illustration of a trout on a line jumping from a pond. Three raised spine bands, gilt lettering, Marbled endpapers have tanned edges. Deckle fore & bottom edges. Top edges gilt. Tissued frontispiece. 15 color plates. Black & white illustrations. Hinges NOT cracked. Binding cracked at limitation page, but still strong otherwise. Leather binding is in good condition, with some rubbing to corners & edges. Corners lightly bumped. Outer inch or so of the back cover is sun faded, as is top half-inch & fore edge of front cover. Pages very lightly & uniformly tanned but still supple. Three pairs of pages have tanned areas from newspapers clippings that were stored between pages. Otherwise, pages clean and unmarked. One B&W plate has a spot of foxing. 451 pages. NO slipcase or additional set of plates. Photos available on request. Fly plates in full color painted by Dr. Edgar Burke. Photographs of fly tying by Charles S. Krug. Line diagrams by Ivan Sickles. See our listings for more collectible fishing books. This item will be shipped with signature confirmation required.
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Details
- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5033
- Title
- Trout
- Author
- Bergman, Ray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- The Penn Publishing Company
- Date Published
- 1938
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fishing,Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed; Fishing;
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About the Seller
SmarterRat Books
Biblio member since 2020
Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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....
- 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...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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