Birds In Japan: A Field Guide
by Yamashina Yoshimaro
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Tokyo: Tokyo News Service, 1961. Book. Illus. by Yoshimoro Yamashino. Fine. Original Cloth. First Edition. Small octavo, kelly green cloth covered boards with gilt title and spine titles. 233pp. including index and List of Japanese Birds. Very generously illustrated throughout with black and white maps, photographs and diagrams and full color illustrations of each of the birds identified. This copy is clean and undamaged with very fresh cloth, sparkling gilt and bright clear unblemished pages and illustrations. The prior owner made some diminutive whimsical note at the top corner of the ffep and one on the verso of the last page "The real place for scenery is in the heart". With those exceptions, a bright, fresh, fine volume without dust jacket. Very near fine..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 07162
- Title
- Birds In Japan: A Field Guide
- Author
- Yamashina Yoshimaro
- Illustrator
- Yoshimoro Yamashino
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Tokyo News Service
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- YAMASHINO, BIRD, BIRDING, BIRDWATCHING, WATCHING, ORNITHOLOGY, ORIENTAL, ORIENT, JAPAN, JAPANESE, PACIFIC, ZOOLOGY, ILLUSTRATED, ILLUSTRATION, FIELD, GUIDE, MANUAL, IDENTIFICATION, SPOTTING, ID, MARKINGS, CHARACTERISTICS, FEATHER, PLUMAGE, MARKS, MARKINGS
- Bookseller catalogs
- General; Japan;
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
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