American Big Game in Its Haunts: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club
by GRINNELL, George Bird (editor)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1914. Original burgundy cloth with silver embossed title on spine and front board, (8.5 x 6 inches). 497 pages, with Club Constitution and Membership List at rear; illustrated with 46 plates, including tissue-protected frontis. Includes chapters on Big Game Shooting in Alaska, Wilderness Reserves by Theodore Roosevelt, The Mountain Sheep and its Range by Grinnell, and others. Showing the typical rubbing to spine and uniform page toning, internally clean and tight . Cloth. Very Good. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Books & Bidders, Antiquarian Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006083
- Title
- American Big Game in Its Haunts: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club
- Author
- GRINNELL, George Bird (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1914
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Sport & Hunting; Boone and Crockett Club
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....