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A Field Guide to the Insects of Britain and Northern Europe (The International series)
by Chinery, Michael
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0395182298
- ISBN 13
- 9780395182291
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston, MA, US: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Ovenden, Denys; Hargreaves, Brian; Riley, Gordon. First American Edition. 352pp, with 60 colour photographic plates and in-text line drawn illustrations throughout. Green cloth-covered boards, black design and titles on front and spine, black 7 inch rule printed on back cover; colour illustrated endpapers. 12mo. Lightly rubbed corners and spine ends, tiny hole on front board. Text block edges lightly tanned. Endpapers lightly tanned. Internally a neat, clean, bright and tight volume. Dust jacket has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, light soiling to spine, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.
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- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023136
- Title
- A Field Guide to the Insects of Britain and Northern Europe (The International series)
- Author
- Chinery, Michael
- Illustrator
- Ovenden, Denys; Hargreaves, Brian; Riley, Gordon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0395182298
- ISBN 13
- 9780395182291
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA, US
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- Insects, Entemology
- X weight
- 0 kg
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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