Adventures in Contentment
by Grayson, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/Good
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
Item Price
£8.57£4.29
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1907. Hardcover with dust jacket, later undated printing of this reprint edition, but c1929 (see below), 250 pages including drawings throughout; book very gently used, light shelf wear to bottom edges and spine ends, very neat three-line ink signature dated "1929") on half title page, otherwise very clean and unmarked throughout (no foxing); DJ chipped at spine and hinge ends, long tear to front bottom spine hinge, spine faded, long list of other Grosset & Dunlap titles inside, now in new mylar protector.. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Good. Illus. by Fogarty, Thomas .
Synopsis
This, I am firmly convinced, is a strange world, as strange a one as I
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- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 042682
- Title
- Adventures in Contentment
- Author
- Grayson, David
- Illustrator
- Fogarty, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1907
- Keywords
- NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE SURVIVAL RURAL FARM AGRICULTURE MANMADE WATER SUPPLY PONDS NATURE LAKES Soil History Geology GEOGRAPHY NATURE NATURAL SCIENCE ECOLOGY ENVIRONMENT EARTH FARMING FARM RURAL COUNTRY GEOLOGY ROOTS FAUNA: ARTHROPODS Humus
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy; Environment/Ecology; Nature/Natural Science/Pets;
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