THE WATER FOWL FAMILY
by Sanford, L. C. ; L. B. Bishop & T. S. Van Dyke
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: The MacMillan Company. Very Good. 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition: #28 of 100 large paper copies from The American Sportsman's Library, edited by Caspar Whitney. Three-quarters brown morrocco over marbled boards with 5 spine bands and gilt decoration & lettering. Matching marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt with deckle cut page edges. [xi, 598pp]. Photogravure frontispiece & 19 b/w illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Charles Livingston Bull and A. B. Frost, etc. All tissue-guards present. Text and hinges tight & intact. Leaves clean without foxing. Edges lightly rubbed. Spine top has a small worn, rubbed area. Early owner's bookplate "MASON W. ZIMMERMAN, PHILADELPHIA". Birds, Ornithology. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 598 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17741
- Title
- THE WATER FOWL FAMILY
- Author
- Sanford, L. C. ; L. B. Bishop & T. S. Van Dyke
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The MacMillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- Birds, Ornithology
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...