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Water: The Nature, Uses, and Future of Our Most Precious and Abused Resource
by Powledge, Fred
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0374286604
- ISBN 13
- 9780374286606
- Seller
-
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
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About This Item
New York, NY, USA: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1982. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [vi], 423pp w index. Grey boards, black quarter-wrap spine w silver lettering. Light shelf wear to bottom edges. Binding square and sound. Colour photo illustrated DJ clean and without wear in laminate protective cover. Standard library markings. Pocket cleanly removed. Condition suggests this copy saw limited circulation
Still a good reference to the problems of diminishing supply of fresh water and the cleanliness and safety of that supply in face of industrial and agricultural pollution.
Still a good reference to the problems of diminishing supply of fresh water and the cleanliness and safety of that supply in face of industrial and agricultural pollution.
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- Seller
- Post Horizon Booksellers
(CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 037136
- Title
- Water: The Nature, Uses, and Future of Our Most Precious and Abused Resource
- Author
- Powledge, Fred
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0374286604
- ISBN 13
- 9780374286606
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, USA
- Date Published
- 1982
- Pages
- 423
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- LCCN
- 82007471
- Keywords
- Water supply - United States. Water supply - pollution
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History / Popular Science;
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About the Seller
Post Horizon Booksellers
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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
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