Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
by William W. Warner
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-/Good
- Seller
-
Ridgeley, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. The top outer edge of the front binding is slightly faded. A solid volume. Price unclipped DJ is worn around the edges with closed tears at the top and bottom DJ spine. From the front DJ flap, "... 'Beautiful Swimmers' is a book that delights and informs general readers and naturalists alike: a complete but humane natural history of the pugnacious, succulent Atlantic blue crab which...graces millions of American tables; a study of Chesapeake Bay - its history, its winds and tides, its graduations of depth, temperature, and salinity - which provides more crabs for human consumption than any other body of waterin the world..."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grampy's Bookcase (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- bc1103043
- Title
- Beautiful Swimmers
- Author
- William W. Warner
- Format/Binding
- White cloth with silver lettering on the spine.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1976
- Pages
- 304
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Chesapeake Bay
Terms of Sale
Grampy's Bookcase
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Grampy's Bookcase
Biblio member since 2018
Ridgeley, West Virginia
About Grampy's Bookcase
A private collector with over three thousand quality used books. Many books are quite old and cover many topics, particularly history and related social sciences. Included is a large collection of early and mid 20th century books on the history of the labor movement and socialist party in the United States. After a lifetime of collecting, looking for good homes for these prized editions.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.