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Birds of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts
by Bagg, Aaron Clark and Samuel Atkins Eliot, Jr
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Northampton, MA: Hampshire Bookshop, 1937. Thorough study of the avifauna of west-central Massachusetts. Stout hardcover, full oatmeal cloth, brown titling. Light wear, corners & spine ends a bit bumped, particularly the lower front, affecting most pages with light creasing to the corners; bookplate of ornithologist Sergej Postupalsky on the verso of the free endsheet. Text clean; lxxiv, [22], 813 pages; indexes, appendix, b/w photos, color frontispiece by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, map endsheets.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Quarto.
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- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- p1445os
- Title
- Birds of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts
- Author
- Bagg, Aaron Clark and Samuel Atkins Eliot, Jr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hampshire Bookshop
- Place of Publication
- Northampton, MA
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Ornithology, Birding, Natural History
- Size
- Quarto
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Quarto
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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