Alaska Bird Trails: Adventures of an Expedition By Dog Sled to the Delta of the Yukon River at Hooper Bay.
by BRANDT, Herbert
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Cleveland: The Bird Research Foundation, 1943. First edition. Tall and thick octavo. xviii, 464 pp. plus 12 full-page color pates, each with it's own printed tissue guard, and 28 full-page photographic illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering, map and photographic endpapers, pictorial dust jacket. Bit of rubbing to jacket but excellent.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74304
- Title
- Alaska Bird Trails: Adventures of an Expedition By Dog Sled to the Delta of the Yukon River at Hooper Bay.
- Author
- BRANDT, Herbert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Bird Research Foundation
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland
- Date Published
- 1943
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About the Seller
Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2012
Portland, Oregon
About Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
Nat DesMarais Rare Books specializes in books on the Sierra Nevada (particularly Yosemite), the Mojave, and California books in general. We also deal in the art of the American West, voyages and travels and nineteenth century literature.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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