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A Field Guide to the Birds A Completely New Guide to All the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
by Peterson, Roger Tory
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- Hardcover
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- first
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1980. First of Fourth Revised Edition. Fine in full morocco, green leather covered boards with six gilt bands on the spine with gilt text in one compartment and gilt images of birds in the other five compartments and a gilt image of a flying duck on the front board. A 12mo of 7 1/8 by 4 1/2 inches with marbled end sheets and with all edges of the text block gilt. Without a dust jacket as issued. This copy is housed in a fine, green cloth covered slipcase and the book and slipcase still retain the original shipping container on the outside of which the book's identifying number is written. A green label on the third free end page identifies this copy as being one of only 99 copies produced especially for the National Audubon Society. This copy is numbered "A.A. 63" in red pen by the author. Warmly signed by the author in his typical red flow pen on the third free end page. With maps by Virginia Marie Peterson. 384 pages containing text and illustrations through-out.
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB33133
- Title
- A Field Guide to the Birds A Completely New Guide to All the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
- Author
- Peterson, Roger Tory
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First of Fourth Revised Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1980
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- 12mo
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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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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....
- Text Block
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- Edges
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