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Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1891 "New" Edition revised with index added (not found in the first edition). Original blue cloth with gilt and black decoration front cover, black decoration spine, gilt lettering spine, original black-coated EPs. The book has rubbing tips corners and spine ends, tiny snag lower spine just below decoration, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing, solid binding. The book measures 210mm tall x 145mm, and has 362 pages, b/w frontis photo, 31 b/w text illustrations, index. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
Seller: JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS, PORTLAND, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo in green cloth binding with gilt & black lettering & decoration. Condition: slight rubbing to spine ends; slight age-darkening to spine cloth; corners very slightly rubbed; tanning to reverse sides of 1st and last free endpapers & their facing pages; small chip to top edge of pp. 1/2 not affecting text; else a remarkably crisp, near fine copy. Pages: xviii, 362.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: red cloth,gilt titles and decorations,362 pages,bookplate inside front cover,quill? signature of former owner on free front end paper, all plates present,age toning,small round old sticker remnant to top of spine,very clean and tight
Seller: mauna kea books, kurtistown, HI, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: New edition, with index. Photographic frontispiece of "Himalayan and North Indian Game", illustrated by photographs and text drawings. xviii, 362 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A scarce and classic work of big game hunting in the mountains of Central Asia. Yakushi M23 Original pictorial green cloth, stamped in gilt with mountain goat on upper cover. Extremities a bit rubbed, front inner hinge cracked. Very good Photographic frontispiece of "Himalayan and North Indian Game", illustrated by photographs and text drawings. xviii, 362 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2/3" stain to front board. 1/8" loss of cloth at tips of corners of boards. A few 1/8" splits to cloth at ends of spine. Moderate rubbing to joints. Heavy foxing to endpapers. Split to gutter at front hinge.; xviii, 362 page + photogravure frontis + 1 photogravure plate + 4 full page plates + 26 small in-text illustrations. Blue-green cloth boards with gilt illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 202 x 129mm. The two photogravure plates show collections of game animal heads, both have an overlaying tissue paper guard with a printed key to the illustration. In the short preface to this new edition, the author notes that an index has now been added. "The bygone performances of an old 'muzzle-loader' may perhaps be considered rather obsolete by the young sportsman of the present with his double 'express.' But as human nature always has been, and, I opine, ever will be much the same, the pleasure of studying the habits of wild animals in their native haunts, the excitement of the stalk, and the charming influence of grand and beautiful scenery, must be little altered now from what they were years ago [.]" - from the opening paragraph.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand