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The Turtles of Illinois
by Cahn, Alvin R
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Urbana: University of Illinois, 1937. Monograph on Illinois turtles, often slighted in herpetological works, which concentrate on the easier-to-identify snakes, salamanders, & frogs; Illinois Biological Monographs Vol. XVI Nos. 1-2. Recently rebound in hardcover, green cloth spine over marbled boards, paper spine label; pages unmarked, near fine; last (blank) leaf torn, missing a piece about 1/2 by 4 inches from the fore-edge. Text clean; 218 pages; glossary, bibliography, maps, figures, tables, 31 b/w plates. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Quarto.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- p1456
- Title
- The Turtles of Illinois
- Author
- Cahn, Alvin R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- University of Illinois
- Place of Publication
- Urbana
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Herpetology, Reptiles, Chelydridae, Kinosternidae, Testudinidae, Trionychidae
- Size
- Quarto
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Quarto
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- Marbled boards
- ...
- Cloth
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- 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....
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Jacket
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