THE SILENT SKY: THE INCREDIBLE EXTINCTION OF THE PASSENGER PIGEON
by Eckert, Allan W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 243 pages. In Good minus condition with Good Dust Jacket in mylar covering. Spine is dark blue with white lettering. Dust jacket has minor shelf wear, age toning. Boards have staining, scraping and tearing, some shelf wear. Head edge is dyed blue. Text block has pen writing on front paste down, age-toning, some staining on rear end paper, foxing throughout. NOTE: Shelved in ND-B. 1375180. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1375180
- Title
- THE SILENT SKY: THE INCREDIBLE EXTINCTION OF THE PASSENGER PIGEON
- Author
- Eckert, Allan W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1965
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
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Rockville, Maryland
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...