The Mammals: A Guide to the Living Species
by MORRIS, Desmond
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition, copyright page. Desmond Morris, the curator of mammals at the London Zoo, provides detailed information on 300 representative mammals of the world. Life habits, scientific names, habitat & ranges and other information is provided, along with a black & white photo of each species discussed. Includes a foreword by Fairfield Osborn. --- In tan cloth-covered boards with spine titling in black. Jacket features color photo of a lemur-like creature to front panel. --- A clean, sound copy but with prior owner's signature to front free endpaper. Unclipped jacket with large open tear to head of spine, other smaller tears but still mostly intact and protected in removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; 448 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 70322
- Title
- The Mammals: A Guide to the Living Species
- Author
- MORRIS, Desmond
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
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- Copyright page
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- 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...
- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Fair
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- Octavo
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