LIVING MARINE MOLLUSCS
by Yonge, C.M. & Thompson, T.E
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0002190990
- ISBN 13
- 9780002190992
- Seller
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About This Item
Collins, 1976. Collins, 1976, First Edition, 8vo, 288 pages, plates illustrations. Jacket price clipped, else book and jacket in very good+ condition.Name of previous owner (Richard I. Johnson) stamped on front endpage. Mr. Johnson was a long time Research Associate at Harvards Museum of Comparative Zoology, having started as a volunteer while still in high school. He published his first scientific article in 1941, at the age of 16, beginning his life as a gentleman scholar, an amateur with a worldwide scholarly reputation who produced more than 50 papers about malacology. Over six decades Johnson assembled perhaps the largest private collection of books and journals on molluscs, including titles seldom found even in research libraries, each volume identified with a discrete stamp of Richard I. Johnson to a preliminary leaf. It was one of the greatest collections of shell books ever assembled.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.
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- Bookseller
- Cape Cod Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GD09457okBC6S2
- Title
- LIVING MARINE MOLLUSCS
- Author
- Yonge, C.M. & Thompson, T.E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0002190990
- ISBN 13
- 9780002190992
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1976
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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