AMERICAN LAND BIRDS
by Ball, Alice E
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good to Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1937. 296 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Modest rubbing to corners and spine ends. Light scattered foxing. Illust. w/ 46 color plates (Lacking plate at page 114 "Purple Grackle"). Comes in original blue slipcase, which is soiled and worn at the edges. . Hard Cover. Good to Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Robert Bruce Horsfall. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21501ANM
- Title
- AMERICAN LAND BIRDS
- Author
- Ball, Alice E
- Illustrator
- Robert Bruce Horsfall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good to Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- Tudor Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- ANIMALS BIRDS AMERICAN LAND BIRDS ORNITHOLOGY ZOOLOGY SPRING MIGRATION LISTS WINTER BIRDS SCARLET TANAGER BLUE JAY CARDINAL RED CROSSBILL JUNCO SNOWFLAKE CEDAR WAXWING TUFTED TITMOUSE WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH BROWN CREEPER EARLY SPRING BIRDS ROBIN BLUEBIRD
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animals;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
Biblio member since 2007
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
Established in 1992, we are family owned and operated. We strive to provide excellent customer service and our inventory is hand picked for the best quality and subject matter. Our diverse inventory of used, rare and out of print books, as well as ephemera, covers most areas of interest and favors more the uncommon or unusual titles.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...