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Audubon Guides: All The Birds of Eastern and Central North America
by Pough, Richard H
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., n.d. [1953]. Book Club Edition. Very good+ in light green cloth covered boards with black and silver colored text on the spine and front board. A 12mo of 7 1/4 by 4 1/2 inches with a prior owner's name on the upper fore corner of the fly title page and with light rubbing to the head and heel of the spine and to the tips of the boards. In a good dust jacket with numerous chips and small closed tears around the extremities of the spine and panels. This title originally appeared in two books: Audubon Bird Guide: Small Land Birds and Audubon Water Bird Guide: Water, Game and Large Land Birds. As a result this title contains 312 pages plus 352 pages each with their own indexes. Illustrated with two sections of color plates and numerous line art images of birds within the text.
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- Seller
- Town's End Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- TB31590
- Title
- Audubon Guides: All The Birds of Eastern and Central North America
- Author
- Pough, Richard H
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- n.d. [1953]
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- New
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- Title Page
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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...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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