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The Natural History of Islands (New Naturalist Library No 109) Signed leather bound limited edition
by Berry, R J
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0007267371
- ISBN 13
- 9780007267378
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About This Item
Collins, 2009. Book. Fine. hardback. Signed by Author(s). Limited Edition. hardback leather bound edition, octavo, brown Nigerian goatskin lettered gilt to spine, all edges gilt, ebony endpapers, a fine copy of this limited edition of 150 copies, this example being numbered 39. Signed by the author on a tipped in bookplate to front free endpaper and housed in a brown cloth slipcase over board, coloured plates, xii + 384pp, .
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- Title
- The Natural History of Islands (New Naturalist Library No 109) Signed leather bound limited edition
- Author
- Berry, R J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0007267371
- ISBN 13
- 9780007267378
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- nature wildlife
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