Audubon: A Biography
by Chancellor, John; Illustrated By W. H. McCheane
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good ++
- ISBN 10
- 0670140538
- ISBN 13
- 9780670140534
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
Item Price
£6.88£3.44
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press Studio Books , 1978. Oversized hardcover with price clipped dust jacket, 224 pages including "16 pages of colour, 100 black-and-white illustrations"; elegant book in forest green with very bright and clear gilt spine lettering, not a hint of shelf wear, very gently read, very clean and unmarked throughout, pages fresh and white; DJ has just a trace of shelf wear to spine ends, now in new mylar protector. See also our listing for Sarah Boehme's John James Audubon in the West: The Last Expedition: Mammals of North America.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good ++.
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- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 041917
- Title
- Audubon: A Biography
- Author
- Chancellor, John; Illustrated By W. H. McCheane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good ++
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670140538
- ISBN 13
- 9780670140534
- Publisher
- Viking Press Studio Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- AUDUBON JOHN JAMES 1785 1851 BIOGRAPHY AMERICAN HISTORY ORNITHOLOGY ART NATURE BIRDS SOCIAL NATURAL SCIENCE ILLUSTRATION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Art; Nature/Natural Science/Pets;
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Eric James
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