A Coloured Key To The Wildfowl Of The World
by Peter Scott
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Wildfowl Trust, 1968. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1968. Further Revised Edition. 95 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains colour illustrations throughout. Pages are bright, with light tanning and foxing to text block edges. Liquid drop on front free endpaper, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with minor corner bumping and slight crushing to spine ends. Boards are subtly bowed. Unclipped dust jacket has light wear to surfaces with slight creasing along edges. Light tanning to spine and edges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1692110816DPB
- Title
- A Coloured Key To The Wildfowl Of The World
- Author
- Peter Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Wildfowl Trust
- Date Published
- 1968
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...