LONDON: COLLINS. Hard cover with illustrated dust jacket(Central image is a Kingfisher) Small tears/pieces missing on DJ edges. Has been price clipped. Green boards with gilt titles on board spine. Previous owner gift inscription on front free endpaper. Foxing on endpapers. A guide to the wildlife and plants of the British countryside. Well illustrated with black and white photographs and colour sketches. Text and plate illustration. 320 pages. Green cloth boards. Slight wear on board edges. Gilt titles on spine. Previous owner inscription on the front endpaper. Pages are tanned and lightly foxed on edges. Clean tight pages. Strong binding. Location: B30 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall . Very Good. Hardcover. REPRINT.. 1959.

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On Mar 17 2015, a reader said:

THIS WAS A GOOD STORY AND IT FLOWED WITHOUT TOO MUCH UNINTERESTING FILLER. IT WAS A CLEAN WRITTEN AND STILLVERY GOOD. I ENJOY BOOKS THAT HAVE A STORY TO THEM AND ARE NOT ALL ABOUT SEX, MURDER AND CURSE WORDS AND WORSE.

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Bookseller: TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 015568
Title: THE BOOK OF THE COUNTRYSIDE
Author: F. MARTIN DUNCAN & LUCY T. DUNCAN
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: REPRINT.
Publisher: COLLINS
Place of Publication: LONDON
Date Published: 1959
Bookseller catalogs: Natural History;

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Price Clipped: When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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....
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...