Pheasant Jungles
by Beebe, William
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
New York: G P. Putnam's Sons, 1927 248 pp with 60 B&W photos taken by the author. Glasine protector on illustration frontis Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Blue buckram boards have title in a gold-stamped cartouche, in which there is some loss of gold. Spine is darkened with the gold stamping exceedingly faded. Pictorial endpapers with a scene of the western Himalayas. William Beebe was Director of Tropical Research for the New York Zoological Society. He spent seventeen months in Asia gathering material for a monograph on pheasants that resulted in this book as his first important scientific undertaking. His adventures covered Ceylon, Sikkim, Garhwal, Burma, Tibet, Yunnan, Pahang and Borneo. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Buckram. Very Good/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001477
- Title
- Pheasant Jungles
- Author
- Beebe, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- G P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Bookseller catalogs
- India & South Asia;
Terms of Sale
Catron Grant Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. Books must be returned in the condition in which they were sold. No returns on books valued at less than $9.00.
About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
Biblio member since 2012
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
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- Tight
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- Buckram
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