My Favourite Stories of Wild Life
by Scott, Peter (Editor); Drawings by Keith Shackleton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good -
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Guildford, UK: Lutterworth Press, 1965. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket, 138 pages including drawings; elegant book in forest green cloth covers with very bright and clear gilt lettering to spine, very gently used, hardly a trace of shelf or reading wear other than gentle bumps to spine ends, spine ever so slightly slanted but tight in binding, light foxing to edges, endpapers and two or three adjacent pages, otherwise very clean and unmarked throughout; DJ gently bumped and rubbed along edges and hinges, several tiny chips/tears, one longer tear neatly closed inside by clear tape. For even more animal stories, see also our listings for Mortimer Batten's Wild and Free : Stories of Canadian Animals, and our Derek Tangye titles (buy two or more and save on postage!).. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good -.
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- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044813
- Title
- My Favourite Stories of Wild Life
- Author
- Scott, Peter (Editor); Drawings by Keith Shackleton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Lutterworth Press
- Place of Publication
- Guildford, UK
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- SCIENTIFIC SCIENCE Nature Natural History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature/Natural Science/Pets;
Terms of Sale
Eric James
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