New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, xiii + 204 pages including 34 black-and-white photographs; very gently used ex-library copy with only tiny traces of shelf wear, rubber stamp to top edge, clear tape residue on both covers, remains of card pocket and due date slip and a rubber stamp on free front endpaper, "Withdrawn" stamp inside back cover, faded old pale (coffee?) splatter stains to fore edge and on eight pages, but tight in binding, remaining pages very clean and unmarked, fresh and white; DJ has ghost of clear tape, spine label, but no chips or tears, still bright and colourful. See also our listings for William Bridges' Gathering of Animals: An Unconventional History of the New York Zoological Society, and for Jon Wynne-Tyson's The Extended Circle: A Commonplace Book of Animal Rights, as well as for Peter Crowcroft's extremely scarce The Zoo. . First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good -/Very Good.

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Seller: Eric James (CA)
Seller's Inventory #: 041777
Title: Adventures of a Zoologist
Author: Scheffer, Victor B
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good -
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Thus
ISBN 10: 0684164396
ISBN 13: 9780684164397
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1982
Keywords: TRAVEL MEMOIR WILDERNESS PERSONAL MEMOIR AUTOBIOGRAPHY AMERICAN HISTORICAL HISTORY HISTORY FARMING NATURAL SCIENCE PETS Australia Description Purpose Mission ZOO ANIMALS WELFARE MORAL ZOOKEEPING ZOOLOGY ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY Ethics zoology NATUR
Bookseller catalogs: Biography; Environment/Ecology; Nature/Natural Science/Pets;

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