Birds' Nests: An Introduction to the Science of Caliology by Charles Dixon - 2009-04-10

Grant Richards, 1902. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1902. No Edition Remarks. 285 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustration plates throughout by A.T. Elwes. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.

Grant Richards, 1902. Hardcover. Good. 1902. No edition remarks. 285 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages are mildly tanned with visible foxing, heavy foxing to endpapers. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Notable smudging to front endpaper. Heavy red paint speckling to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Moderate tanning and foxing to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Red liquid stain to rear board.

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Grant Richards, 1902. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback, octavo, green cloth lettered gilt to spine, top edge gilt, foxing to front pre-lims else a very good tightly bound copy, some loss to bottom corner of List of Illustration's page, some leaves unopened, bookplate of a previous owner, the text is free of markings, b&w illustrations by A T Elwes, xiii + 285pp.

Hardback. New.