The Scallop: Studies Of A Shell And Its Influence On Humankind
by COX, Ian (edited by)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Shell, 1957. Hardback. London Shell, 1957. FIRST EDITION. Hardback. 4to 11 x 8.5 inches. Red cloth with beautiful gilt shell decoration covering the front board. Illustrated throughout in colour. 135 pages. Very small inscription to top right corner of fep. No dustwrapper. Near Fine volume about the seashell adopted by the famous oil company published to mark its Diamond Jubilee in 1957.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7093
- Title
- The Scallop: Studies Of A Shell And Its Influence On Humankind
- Author
- COX, Ian (edited by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Shell
- Date Published
- 1957
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About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
Biblio member since 2017
Stockport, Cheshire
About Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
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- Dustwrapper
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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