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Size of bookbinding on the English Language printing of Turgenev's "A Hunter's Sketches": 5 1/4 in. x 7 5/8 in., [456] pp. (including notes in English); black & white photograph of a portrait of Turgenev in hunter s outfit, with a rifle, and fur cap in his pocket; with facsimile signature; titlepage printed in black & green, with a small vignette. Size of leather hunter s bag: 10 ½ in. x 7 ½ in. x 3 ¼ in. (thick). The bag is constructed of greenish-brown brushed leather, with brown leather fringes and sewing, and brown suede leather tab (closure) and mounted exterior casing for holding five empty (SBP 12/Czechoslovakia) cartridges; shoulder belt is made of matching greenish-brown brushed leather with brown suede undersurface, and brass rings & fasteners; interior is lined with fine-surfaced brown suede leather with central space to hold the book and its fur wraparound, and with a smaller side compartment that holds four mounted, empty cartridges. The book has been finely bound in brown, polished leather with titling on spine deeply impressed and filled with brown, and a design of blind-stamped, or filled crossed lines on the covers, with the ends of two empty cartridges mounted into the front cover. The fur wraparound is the prepared pelt and head of a small animal from the forests of Czechoslovakia. The head contains a clasp mechanism (this is non-functional), and the head-piece moves away from the fore-edge of the book, so it can be opened. Top-edge is stained dark brown & polished, dark brown suede leather endpapers, followed by three flyleaves of an increasing lighter colored, brown, textured paper. Back suede paste-down is blind-stamped with the binder s initials & date, in the lower right corner: FK86 [Frantisek Kusy, 1986]. Quite an imaginative piece of work by Czechoslovakian designer bookbinder Frantisek Kusy. The clasp mentioned above requires restoration or replacement, but otherwise, the book and the hunter s bag are in fine condition. The text is in English. Scan shows part of the upper front & top of the hunter s bag, and the spine of the Turgenev/Kusy volume, laid sideways Weight: 4 lbs. Postage is extra on this item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-419803104
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