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Darwin's Orchids: Then and Now
by Edens-Meier, Retha (Editor), and Bernhardt, Peter (Editor)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0226044912
- ISBN 13
- 9780226044910
- Seller
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
Collectible First edition 2014, first printing, numbers line starts with 1. Signed and inscribed by both editors and one ethnobiologist contributor on the free end paper dated 4/22/16. Hardcover in full cloth, gilt at spine bright, in like dust jacket that has a whisper of cornering. A signed first edition in excellent shape. gently read. 8vo, 430 pages.
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- Bookseller
- Bright Side of the Road Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16604
- Title
- Darwin's Orchids: Then and Now
- Author
- Edens-Meier, Retha (Editor), and Bernhardt, Peter (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0226044912
- ISBN 13
- 9780226044910
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Date Published
- 2014
- Pages
- 430
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- Inscribed
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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