Birds that Hunt and are Hunted: Life Histories of One Hundred and Seventy Birds of Prey, Game Birds, and Waterfowls
by Blanchan, Neltje
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, Page & Company, 1902. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good+ ; No jacket. 1902 Doubleday, Page & Company. Copyright 1898. NOT ex-library. Oversize hardcover, 7.5 x 10.25 inches, has beige buckram cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering on a brown leather spine panel. Top page edges are gilt. Color frontispiece with tissue guard. 48 glossy color plates. Spine title: "Game Birds". Introduction by G. O. Shields (Coquina). 359 pages. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped and rubbed. Front cover has a small light stain. Text pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. A few pages have light handling smudges in margins. The tissue guard for the frontispiece has a few light spots of foxing; some have carried over to the title page, but not the plate. One plate, the Bartramian Sandpiper, has three pencil lines tracing the foot of a bird. The plate of the Purple Gallinule has a small one-quarter by one-half inch area at the inner edge where the surface of the image stuck to the opposite page and has been pulled away; bird not affected. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11447
- Title
- Birds that Hunt and are Hunted: Life Histories of One Hundred and Seventy Birds of Prey, Game Birds, and Waterfowls
- Author
- Blanchan, Neltje
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- Birds,Nature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Birds; Nature;
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- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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....
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
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