The Audubon Society Handbook for Birders: A Guide to Locating, Observing, Identifying, Recording, Photographing & Studying Birds
by KRESS, Stephen W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0684168383
- ISBN 13
- 9780684168388
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0684168383 . A first printing of this guide for the bird watcher. With advice as to field trips, bird identification & observation, photography & sound recording, research programs which welcome amateur assistance, and listing of bird-watching & bird-related reference books. With black & white photos, drawings by Anne Senechal Faust and a foreword by Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr. --- In textured blue paper-covered boards with image of swallow in blind to front cover, titling in gilt to spine. Jacket features author's color photo of a pair of gannets to front panel. --- An excellent copy: bright, tightly-bound and unmarked. Jacket with a few scuffs and rubbed spots, else intact and bright.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xiii, 322 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84592
- Title
- The Audubon Society Handbook for Birders: A Guide to Locating, Observing, Identifying, Recording, Photographing & Studying Birds
- Author
- KRESS, Stephen W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0684168383
- ISBN 13
- 9780684168388
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- 0684168383
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