The Ways of Nesting Birds
by Holden, Raymond P. Illustrated By Grace DeWitt
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1970. First edition, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Very good copy except for a stained rear cover (not visible with dustjacket in place). The author describes the nesting habits of 49 different birds. Illustrated with line drawings. Blue cloth, 127 pages, illustrated dustjacket. Light rubbing to corners and spine ends, two coffee cup ring-type spots on rear cover, good hinges, sound text block, a scattering of light foxing to the endpapers, embossed personal book stamp at the lower corner of the front free endpaper, pages clean and otherwise unmarked. The mylar protected dustjacket is priceclipped and has some very minor chipping to the spine ends, a small green circular sticker at the bottom corner of the front panel, very minor spot to lower edge of spine.. Signed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028206
- Title
- The Ways of Nesting Birds
- Author
- Holden, Raymond P. Illustrated By Grace DeWitt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- CHILDRENS NATURE BIRDS NESTS ORNITHOLOGY SPRING BREEDING NEST BUILDING
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books; Science, Medicine & Nature;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Cloth
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- Chipping
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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....
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