Strange Animals and Their Stories
by Verrill, A. Hyatt
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(London: George G. Harrap, 1939). 8vo; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. xiv + 235, incl. index; colour frontis. with captioned tissue-guard; plates, incl. colour; line drawings in text. All illustrations by the author. Cloth worn, esp. to head of backstrip, and a little fishmothed; ownership inscription to front endpaper; rather foxed and browned. Fair to good condition. Subtitle: "Animals in armor. The land of marsupials. Topsyturvy creatures. Behemoths of Scripture. Giants who took to the sea. Camels of the Andes. The strangest animal of all." From the author's introduction: 'No doubt there are many persons who will feel that some of these tales of strange animals are incredible; that they are much too strange to be true, but in the animal world as well as in the world of man, truth is often stranger than fiction. Like the farmer who, gazing at the giraffe declared, "There ain't no sech critter," we may find it difficult to convince ourselves that there are such strange animals and animal ways, yet the fact remains, whether, as Ripley says: we "believe it or not." ' .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8609
- Title
- Strange Animals and Their Stories
- Author
- Verrill, A. Hyatt
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (London: George G. Harrap, 1939)
- Keywords
- Mammals. Mammalogy. Ethology. Animal Behaviour Natural History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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- 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...
- G
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- Cloth
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- E.P.
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- Fair
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...