The Puffin
by M.P. Harris
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0856610380
- ISBN 13
- 9780856610387
- Seller
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Sorn, East Ayrshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Calton: T & A D Poyser, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - Large (over 7¾" - 9¾"). 224pp. 1984. First edition. 8vo. large sized. A lovely, clean, tight very good copy in similar jacket. Original publisher's red boards - gilt embossed to the spine. The text supported by numerous photographic reproductions, line drawings and diagrams. No inscriptions. Light bumps to the lower two board corners. The jacket has not been price-clipped - the image of the puffin to the spine is faded - the titles in black remain as sharp and legible as ever. A very good or very good plus copy in similar jacket. Published by Poyser and not A & C. Black as the library info. may suggest.
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- Bookseller
- Trumpington Fine Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 238870
- Title
- The Puffin
- Author
- M.P. Harris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0856610380
- ISBN 13
- 9780856610387
- Publisher
- T & A D Poyser
- Place of Publication
- Calton
- Date Published
- 1984
- Size
- 8vo - Large (over 7Â&frac3
- X weight
- 21 oz
Terms of Sale
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- Gilt
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