Birds of Arctic Alaska
by Bailey, Alfred M
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Colorado; Colorado Museum of Natural History, 1948., 1948. Hardcover. SIGNED COPY. Large octavo. 317 pp. Book Condition: Very Good. Publishers maroon cloth with gilt titles, lightly rubbed to edge. Light foxing to endpapers, title page and page edges otherwise a very clean copy. Lengthy gift inscription signed by the author to ffep dated 1949. Well illustrated throughout. "An account of the field experiences of the author and Russell W Hendee on the expedition of The Colorado Museum of Natural History to Bering Strait and the Arctic coast in 1921-1922". Bailey (1894-1978) was Director of the Museum for over thirty years; he undertook numerous expeditions to many remote parts of the world and contributed regularly to periodicals such as "National Geographic".
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- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3177
- Title
- Birds of Arctic Alaska
- Author
- Bailey, Alfred M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Colorado; Colorado Museum of Natural History, 1948.
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- Natural History
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