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Wild Lone, The Story of a Pytchley Fox
by BB, D J Watkins-Pitchford, foreword by Sir Charles Frederick
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair / Good
- Seller
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Hythe, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1938. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fair / Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback, bound in quarter grey cloth with gilt titling to spine and green cloth covered boards. 23.5 × 15cm, 268pp. The struggle of a motherless fox cub to survive in the English wilds of 1938, beautifully illustrated by the author (as Watkins-Pitchford.) Condition: The cloth boards are rubbed and a bit grubby. The pages edges and endpapers are foxed but the main body of text is in better condition with secure binding and clean pages. A better-than-good reading copy.
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- Bookseller
- Cox and Budge Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014500
- Title
- Wild Lone, The Story of a Pytchley Fox
- Author
- BB, D J Watkins-Pitchford, foreword by Sir Charles Frederick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair / Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Eyre & Spottiswoode
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1938
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- 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...
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