Birds of the West Indies
by Bond, James
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Madison, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1947. 257pp. color frontispiece. 211 Black and White line drawings throughout. Map endpapers. A hint of edgewear and toning, otherwise a fine, unmarked copy. Price-clipped pictorial jacket is bright with minor color loss along the extremities. in mylar sleeve."Birds of the West Indies" was a book owned by novelist Ian Fleming, who used the ornithologist's name for his own fictional British secret agent character, Commander James Bond. Fleming, a keen bird watcher while living at his estate in Jamaica, owned this book. He later explained that the author's name was 'brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon, and yet very masculine just what I needed'. The book has since become a collector's item amongst Bond fans". Though the book states First Edition, the orgiinal edition came out in 1936. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Chatham Bookseller, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033121
- Title
- Birds of the West Indies
- Author
- Bond, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- James Bond Ian Fleming Birds Illustrated Bookfair24
Terms of Sale
The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
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About the Seller
The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
Biblio member since 2005
Madison, New Jersey
About The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
The Chatham Bookseller began in 1968, and, in 1970, opened a store at its present location in Madison, NJ. The store contains over 10,000 books in over 80 different subjects, and favors good used books and good literature (both hardcover and paperback) over popular books and bestsellers. Our Internet business began in 2001. Upon visiting the store, we can show and sell individual online titles upon request. Store hours are 10:00-5:30 (Tues.-Sat.) and 11:00-4:00 (Sun.). The business is run by Richard Chalfin.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...