The Badger. (New Naturalist Monograph No. 1)
by Neal, Larry C
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
14 St. James Place, London: Collins, 1948 Early printing. Hard cover, 8vo, in green cloth, titles blocked in gold to spine, in the original pictorial dust jacket now in mylar, "First printed in 1948," color frontispiece, 158pp. Condition: Very Good in a Very Good D/j. One corner clipped on ffep. With the bookplate of a noted American naturalist and mammalogist, and pencilled note as to the purchase and reading of the book in dated 1970 on the front pastedown. The five monographs advertised on the back of d/j describe them as a more detailed study of select species the amateur naturalist, meant to accompany the popular "New Naturalist Series," which began publishing in 1945, and continued to at least 2015. Dates on rear of dust jacket suggest this is at least an early printing, as it advertises other books in the series to be released 1948 and 1949. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis (cover design).
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- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8942
- Title
- The Badger. (New Naturalist Monograph No. 1)
- Author
- Neal, Larry C
- Illustrator
- Clifford and Rosemary Ellis (cover design)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- 14 St. James Place, London
- Date Published
- 1948
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