THE YEAR OF THE WHALE.
by Scheffer, Victor B
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1969)., (1969).. Very good. - Square 8vo, navy blue cloth (bottom edges of covers slightly faded) titled in silver with vignette of whales stamped in blind on front cover, in dw (darkened & chipped; lightly soiled). viii, [ii], 213 & [1] pp. (owner's blind stamp on half-title). Illustrations in dark blue & white by Leonard Everett Fisher. Very good in good dw. <p>First edition.<p>The author, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a world authority on marine animals, writes in his preface: "This story of a sperm whale is fiction based on fact. Some of the human characters that appear in it are real, if disguised, others are not real, though they could be....When I depart from the story to give information about the study of whales, about whaling, past and present, about conservation, and other related matters, this information is printed in different type from that used for the story."
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 673
- Title
- THE YEAR OF THE WHALE.
- Author
- Scheffer, Victor B
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1969).
- Date Published
- (1969).
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; FICTION; NATURAL HISTORY; WHALES; SPERM WHALE; MARINE ANIMALS; WHALING; CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENT; FIRST EDITION; ILLUSTRATED; LEONARD EVERETT FISHER.
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About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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