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Book of Monsters
by Fairchild, David & Marian
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Washington: National Geographic Society, 1914. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates throughout, large octavo, pp 266, some age-toning throughout, page 145 and the plate overleaf torn without loss, some thumbing and creaseing to the fore-edges throughout, the title page and the following page creased and foxed, traces of removed bookplates on the front and rear endpapers, red cloth with pictorial inlay, rubbed and a bit worn, the corners a little worn, lacking a small piece at the spine head. With the stamp of the entomologist Charles Edgar Pratt on the endpaper. RARE. Extremely enlarged photographs of spiders and insects. [David Grandison Fairchild was an American botanist and plant explorer. Fairchild was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the United States, including soybeans, pistachios, mangos, nectarines, dates, bamboos, and flowering cherries. Certain varieties of wheat, cotton, and rice became especially economically important. His wife was Marian Bell, the younger daughter of Alexander Graham Bell. This was his first book.]. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Fair.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018695
- Title
- Book of Monsters
- Author
- Fairchild, David & Marian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- National Geographic Society
- Place of Publication
- Washington
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- Marian Bell.daughter.Alexander Graham Bell
- Bookseller catalogs
- Entomology; Photography;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Mike Park Ltd
Biblio member since 2005
London, Greater London
About Mike Park Ltd
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Glossary
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
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