The Search For The Pink-Headed Duck --- 1991 FIRST EDITION
by Nugent, Rory
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1991 FIRST PRINTING of First USA Edition. Original beige boards with beige cloth spine lettered in gilt. LACKING the dust jacket. Minor soiling covers, some foxing spots to spine cloth, fore-edge foxing, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing on page faces, solid binding. The book measures 216mm tall x 145mm, and has 222 pages, 21 b/w photos, map. Account of author's quest to find the rare bird along the Brahmaputra River, Assam border, Darjeeling area, Gangtok, Sikkim-Tibet border. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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- Bookseller
- JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003051
- Title
- The Search For The Pink-Headed Duck --- 1991 FIRST EDITION
- Author
- Nugent, Rory
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Burma, India, central Asia, Plant Hunting, Botany, assam, birds
- Bookseller catalogs
- Central Asia;
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