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Wild Heritage
by Sally Carrighar
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965 Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 1965. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; moisture stain to spine and upper portion of the front board without penetration to pages; light shelfwear. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($5.95); chipping and missing small pieces to head and tail; moisture stain on spine; wear to tops and flap folds. Khaki cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering in green shadowbox on the spine; gilt title on the front board. 276 pp 8vo. This book is about animal behavior in relation to human behavior and how close is our behavior tot hat of other animals and how much we can discover from them about ourselves. Animals share with us the ability to make and use tools, to communicate precise information, to organize knowledge, and maintain stable societies. The author shows the animal world in action with animals leading their own lives and describes how they behave toward each other. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012379
- Title
- Wild Heritage
- Author
- Sally Carrighar
- Illustrator
- Rachel S. Horne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1965
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- animals, animal behavior, communication, animal societies, natural science, nature, devotion to the young in animals, mother and child in animals, human dangers, human opportunities.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animal Stories;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Cloth
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
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