Dictionary of Butterflies and Moths in Colour
by Laithwaite, E.; etc
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 071811423X
- ISBN 13
- 9780718114237
- Seller
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Sorn, East Ayrshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Michael Joseph Ltd, 1975-10-01. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 12x9x1. 296pp. (orange spine)small folio sized. 1975. First edition. A very good plus, clean, tight copy in very good jacket. Original publisher's brown leatherette - gilt embossed to the spine. No inscriptions. The text supported by numerous colour photographic plates. The jacket has not been price-clipped. It has some shelf wear, some creasing to the extreme lower front panel and several short tears, which have been expertly repaired and some light spotting to the verso. A very good plus copy in very good jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Trumpington Fine Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023176
- Title
- Dictionary of Butterflies and Moths in Colour
- Author
- Laithwaite, E.; etc
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 071811423X
- ISBN 13
- 9780718114237
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1975-10-01
- Size
- 12x9x1
- X weight
- 28 oz
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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