HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.Thus ?* Date of Publication: Undated but not after 1929 (Dedicated)* Publisher: Collins Clear Type Press.* Binding and cover condition: Navy blue textured leather covers, embossed with gilt decorative motif with red highlights and lettering to front and spine. No bumps, slight rubs to edges and corners and to head and tail of spine. GD++* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Dark slate coloured end papers. Dedication to frontis Xmas 1929. Top edge gilt. Fore edge a little foxed. Clean, crisp and tight with light reading wear, numerous newspaper cuttings inserted and tipped in throughout. Various verses added in pen and in pencil throughout. GOOD* Illustrations: NONE* Pages: 125 pp. text. ii pp. acknowledgements at rear.* Description: Collection of writings about animals from Shakespeare, Whitman, Blake, de la Mare, G.K. Chesterton et al. * A GOOD copy with a lot of inscriptions and additions tipped in. No dust jacket.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 144
Title: AN ANTHOLOGY FOR ANIMAL LOVERS.
Author: D'Oyley, Elizabeth
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - GD/GD++/ND
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Collins
Place of Publication: London Uk 0

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Bumps: Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
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Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...