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Introducing the Insect (Wayside & Woodland S.)
by Urquhart, Fred A
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG+/GD
- ISBN 10
- 0723200122
- ISBN 13
- 9780723200123
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Revised.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1965* Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Green cloth, gilt titles & decoration to spine & face. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: Illustrated dust wrapper showing various insects, red and dark green titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED but with price of £1.80 net scribbled out. Considerable shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine showing tears and some losses. Tears repaired with tape and paper re-inforcement. Now in clear protective wrapper. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Owners name to ffep. Top edge darkened. Text clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to fore-edge, otherwise minimal faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w line drawings and diagrams within text throughout.* Pages: 249 pp. text. xii pp., conclusion & blank pages at rear.* Description: In this book Dr Urquhart begins by defining what an insect is; then goes on to show where they can be found. There are sections on collecting apparatus, storage boxes, methods of pinning, spreading and relaxing, papering and labelling of specimens, anatomy and life history of insects and their classification and identification.* A VG++ text copy of the 1st revised edition with some faults in a GD but aged, now protected, dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1745
- Title
- Introducing the Insect (Wayside & Woodland S.)
- Author
- Urquhart, Fred A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG+/GD
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Revised Edition, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0723200122
- ISBN 13
- 9780723200123
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne Publishers Ltd
- Place of Publication
- UK 272
- Date Published
- 1965-09-01
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