Arizona and Its Bird Life: A Naturalist's Adventurers with the Nesting Birds on the Deserts, Grasslands, Foothills, and Mountains of Southeastern Arizona.
by BRANDT, Herbert
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About This Item
Cleveland: The Bird Research Foundation, 1951. First edition. Tall and thick quarto. xvi 723, [3] pp. plus 18 full-page color plates, each with it's own printed tissue guard, and 42 full-page photographic illustrations. Numerous textual illustrations. Publisher's faux green morocco with gilt spine and cover lettering, gilt device of a roadrunner on front cover, map and photographic endpapers. Pictorial dust jacket. As new.
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- Bookseller
- Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75542
- Title
- Arizona and Its Bird Life: A Naturalist's Adventurers with the Nesting Birds on the Deserts, Grasslands, Foothills, and Mountains of Southeastern Arizona.
- Author
- BRANDT, Herbert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Bird Research Foundation
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland
- Date Published
- 1951
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Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
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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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