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Marine Game Fishes of the Pacifc Coast from Alaska to the Equator
by Lionel A. Walford
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Berekley, California: University of California Press, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Link Malmquist. First Edition, 1937, large format 11.25 inches in height, quality University of California Press publication, with paintings by Link Malmquist and photographs in natural color by Ralph Emerson, 205 pages including index, heavily illustrated with black and white plates, also including 56 beautiful full color plates, great book for fish identification and artist study, Book is Very Good Plus, original blue green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and front board, spine shows some sunning, No previous owner bookplate or writing, light foxing on fore edge and top edge, light foxing on preliminary pages no jacket, sound binding. A very presentable and clean First Edition at a bargain price. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001462
- Title
- Marine Game Fishes of the Pacifc Coast from Alaska to the Equator
- Author
- Lionel A. Walford
- Illustrator
- Link Malmquist
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berekley, California
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Marine Game Fish, Pacific Fish, Pacific Coast Books
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
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