Life and Sport on the Pacific Slope de Horace Annesley Vachell (Creator) - 2012-08-01

Acceptable. New York, 1901. Poor condition. Burgundy cloth covered boards with gold titles; edges and covers worn; 12mo, 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; no jacket. Gutter cracked at half title page with webbing exposed; front board weak; first signature loose; no internal markings; 393 pages.

Dodd, Mead and Company, 1901. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1901. No Edition Remarks. 393 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated plates. Light thumb marking, foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Front hinge is moderately cracked causing boards to be loose. Binding othewise remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

NY: Dodd Mead & Co, 1901. Illustrated & Fair (cover is spotted & top of spine is worn) Email for Pictures. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket.

NY: Dodd, Mead and Co, 1901. First American edition (published in London the previous year). Small 8vo. x, 393 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates. Travel on the West Coast and British Columbia; includes big (Grizzly Bear) and small game shooting, and fishing in both salt (tuna) and fresh water (salmon). Bruns V-1. Original silver-stamped burgundy cloth (spine ends rubbed). Very good.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d.. Hardcover. Very Good. Englishman's account of game hunting, fresh and saltwater fishing, and ranch life in California and the Pacific Coast at the turn of the last century. No date, but gift inscription to Frank Hardcastle on ffep dated "Xmas 1907." Octavo, 312 pp. Black & white photographic plates. Green cloth a little rubbed and soiled. Prelims show some foxing.

New.

New York, NY: Dodd, Mead and Company. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1901. ........ Cloth. Sm 8vo., 393 pp., cover rubbed, frayed, bookplate, page toning, .

NY: Dodd, Mead & Co.. Very Good-. 1901. Hardcover. Lightly bumped. ; x, 393 pages; Illustrated. **Bruns V1: "scarce. " .

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1901. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. First American edition. Maroon cloth boards with silver lettering. Light wear to spine ends. Interior is clean and unmarked. One inch split at the bottom of the rear inner hinge. A few pages have small chips along their bottom edges. Eight plates (including frontispiece) with illustrations from photographs. pp. viii, 393. Dust jacket chipped; light soiling on front panel; in an archival mylar sleeve. Scarce in jacket. An Englishman's varied and vivacious observations, reminiscences and anecdotes of California in the 1880s and 1890s, including detailed commentary on the character, morals, and culture of the people (with praise and plenty of criticism), its newspapers, ranching life, hunting and fishing, agriculture, and more. Contents: [I] The Land of To-Morrow. [II] The Men of the West. [III] The Women of the West. [IV] The Children of the West. [V] Ranch Life, I. [VI] Ranch Life, II. [VII] Business… Leer más