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Price: US$51.75 + shipping
Description: Illustr (no color litho frontis), 9 x 5.5, red cloth, 371 pp, covers very worn and stained, extremities bumped and fraying, hinges loose, ex-lib with usual markings, text block cracked, contents toned and worn, a rather sorry copy. Don't you feel sorry for it?
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Demy 8vo; (x),(372),[1]+[11 plates]pp. Rebound. Quarter green Morocco with green buckram. Gilt title and date to back with raised bands. Binding square and tight. Light soiling to top edge as to be expected. Small water stain to top outside corners of frontispiece and title page, not affecting the image or text; otherwise clean within. Nice colour frontispiece and ten engraved plates. A 'Very Good' copy.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Illustrated with color frontispiece, title page vignette and 10 black-and-white engraved plates. viii, [ii], 371, [8, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bruns H70; Westwood and Satchell, p. 112; Sabin 30349; Lande 1822; Watters, p. 686 Original purple cloth. Spine toned, some light wear (small nick at spine, head rubbed), title page a bit foxed, hinges tender. Very good Illustrated with color frontispiece, title page vignette and 10 black-and-white engraved plates. viii, [ii], 371, [8, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: viii,[1],371pp., including engraved color frontis. and title, plus ten plates. Half title. Publisher's maroon cloth, boards blind tooled, spine gilt. Corners bumped, spine and edges sunned. Light foxing to several plates, text moderately tanned. About very good. Campbell Hardy's second book. His reminiscences of hunting, fishing, and camping on his trips to Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. Hardy was a well known sportsman and visited Acadia on many occasions over the years. "Incidents of personal association with individuals of the Micmac and Milicete tribes of Indians fill the volume" - Field. FIELD 652 SABIN 30349.
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$288.45 + shipping
Description: Illustrated with colour frontispiece [the American brook trout], title page vignette and 10 black-and-white engraved plates. viii, [ii], 371 pp. Pub. pebble-grain green cloth, gilt. Damp stain to the title-page and a small closed margin tear otherwise a nice copy with an unfaded binding. 22.5 cms. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS. Size: large 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Price: US$298.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo., x, 371 pp. [1] colour lithograph of a brook trout (frontis.), [10] plate engravings, plus engraved title vignette. Half red calf, red cloth over boards, gilt titles and compartments. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, spine darkened, some rubbing to leather. Marginal damp staining to plates, not affecting illustrations. A few spots of foxing and rust marks, but very clean overall. Near fine. "The Author having brought out several years since a work on sporting in Atlantic America, which was favourably received, is induced to present the present volume of more recent experiences, especially as the interval since elapsed has been unmarked by the production of any English publication of a similar land." (from the preface) Harry Piers wrote in the author's obituary that Hardy ''was a notable man who had taken the deepest interest in this province, and who did much through his writings to draw the attention of sportsmen and naturalists to this field.'' [Nova Scotia Archives]. Watters 964.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Bound in later 3/4 brown leather over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, color lithograph frontispiece and all others as listed, previous owner name on title page otherwise clean and unmarked VG++
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.