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Animal Husbandry for Schools: New and Revised Edition (Rural Textbook Series)
by Harper, Merritt W
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
The Macmillan Company, New York, 1943. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. Preface by author and index. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece, showing cattle drinking in a stream. The text is illustrated with black and white photographs, black-and-white illustrations and graphs. Green coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured illustration, decoration and titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. A book that was first published in 1913, dealing with all aspects of farming and rural life. The author goes through the various farm animals, including how to plough the land with various teams of horses. Dairy cattle, beef cattle, wool and mutton sheep are discussed along with swine and fowl. The book is showing age and use. Softening and rubbing of the back strip edges, bumping of the book corners and rubbing to the lower book edges and either side of the back strip. Handling marks and rubs to the book panels. Uniform tanning of the text block edges with age toning of the pages. Foxing to the endpages and a little scattered foxing throughout the text. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down. Between pages 20 and 21 the book has been "over open" and the underlying webbing is visible - please see photograph. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [4], V - IX, [3], 3 - 615, [5] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Farming & Rural Life; Education. Inventory No: 0124520. .
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0124520
- Title
- Animal Husbandry for Schools: New and Revised Edition (Rural Textbook Series)
- Author
- Harper, Merritt W
- Illustrator
- Photographic and Illustrations
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Animal husbandry, farming, textbook, 1940s, agriculture, Rural Textbook Series Farming & Rural Life; Education. Photographic and Illustrations Unbranded Harper, Merritt W. Animal Husbandry for Schools: New and Revised Edition (Rural Textbook S
- Bookseller catalogs
- Education;
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Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Paste-down
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- New
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- Text Block
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- Reprint
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