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Birds of America
by Edited by T. Gilbert Pearson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good — in Poor Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper worn at the edges with nicks and chips along the top edge, short, closed tea
- Seller
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Garden City Books, 1936. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Poor Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper worn at the edges with nicks and chips along the top edge, short, closed tear to the foot of the upper panel. Previous owners' name and date to the first blank. The contents complete, clean and tight. . Louis Agassiz Fuertes. ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 3.3kg. shipping beyond the shores of my utopian country will be by ParcelForce World Wide, and starts at £15.00 Europe/£30.00 Elsewhere (less the displayed cost) for a 5-7 day service, tracked, duties unpaid. ### Hardback in dust wrapper (quarter-bound green on faun boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 11¼” x 8¼” (3.3 kg); (xliv) 289pp; Index; Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes; Includes: Line drawings; Black & white photographs; Colour plates (106); Maps; Glossary; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #191685|| Condition:
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 191685
- Title
- Birds of America
- Author
- Edited by T. Gilbert Pearson
- Illustrator
- Louis Agassiz Fuertes
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good — in Poor Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper worn at the edges with nicks and chips along the top edge, short, closed tea
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Garden City Books
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- bird migration, diving birds, totipalmated swimmers, lamellirostral swimmers, herons, storks, ibises, birds prey, perching birds, woodpeckers, swifts, goatsuckers, american ornithology, american ornithological pioneers, american birds, birds north america
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animals & Birds;
Terms of Sale
BookLovers of Bath
As a distance seller based in England, I am required to abide by the terms of the "Distance Selling Act", details of which are freely available. This ensures that you have the highest degree of protection when purchasing from me. Alongside that, I prefer to treat my customers in the manner that I expect to be treated; my guarantee is complete satisfaction or your money back - I aim to please, not just for the one book sale but to ensure that should you require another book, another time that my name against it means it gets your consideration.
About the Seller
BookLovers of Bath
Biblio member since 2006
Peasedown St. John, Somerset
About BookLovers of Bath
BookLovers of Bath is set in the pastoral idyll of Peasedown St. John in Somerset (God's Own Country) in the south west of England. My wife and I owned the village Post Office until the modern world caught up with us in 2014. At that point I converted the premises to a small book shop, Fact or Fable, with a stock of around 4,000 titles in stock. I've been selling books worldwide since 1997 and rather hope to get the hang of it shortly…
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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- Gilt
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- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
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