To Africa with the Migrating Birds
by Berg, Bengt
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1930. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1st edition from private library. Green buckram cover, with yellow printing on spine and front, is clean with almost no wear. Call letters in ink at lower edge front paste-down endpaper. Book plate of M. Graham Netting (former director of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History) on verso of front free endpaper along with ink notation in left upper corner "Union Library 8/3/34" in small ink letters. There is a slight separation between the 4th and 5th signatures but they are not loose. DJ has large chips, particularly from top front, tears, rubbing and soiling, call letters on spine, now in mylar. ; Includes 75 illustrations. ; Black and White Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 274 pages .
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- Bookseller
- James F. Balsley, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3715
- Title
- To Africa with the Migrating Birds
- Author
- Berg, Bengt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animals; Biology & Ecology; Birds;
Terms of Sale
James F. Balsley, Bookseller
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About the Seller
James F. Balsley, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2006
Williamsburg, Virginia
About James F. Balsley, Bookseller
My business is strictly on-line sales. I carry an inventory of about 2000 books. About half of these are modern fiction. Most of the rest are scholarly academic books concentrated in the areas of natural science, philosophy, history, and literature.
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- Fair
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- Paste-down
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- Plate
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- Rubbing
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- Buckram
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- G
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- Jacket
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