Pheasants Their Lives and Homes
by William Beebe
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc., 1936. Hardcover. Good. 1936. No Edition Remarks. 309 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards. Colour and black and white plates throughout. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Minor inscriptions to free endpapers. Some tape marks at front. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and foxed, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1695893181ADA
- Title
- Pheasants Their Lives and Homes
- Author
- William Beebe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc.
- Date Published
- 1936
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....