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Fabre's Book of Insects: Retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' Translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques"
by Stawell, Mrs Rodolph
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1937. Book. Illus. by E. J. Detmold. Good. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Seventh Printing. 260mm Tall, 4to. With original box. viii; 271 pages. 12 tipped-in illustrations. Green cloth covers with gilt title and decoration on front cover and gilt title on spine. Foxing on pastedowns, free endpapers and page edges. Dust jacket has tear and creases at top/tail of spine, slight foxing and general shelfwear. Slight foxing to some tissue guards and on illustrations. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
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- Bookseller
- Andmeister Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5659
- Title
- Fabre's Book of Insects: Retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' Translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques"
- Author
- Stawell, Mrs Rodolph
- Illustrator
- E. J. Detmold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Seventh Printing
- Publisher
- Tudor Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Size
- 260mm Tall, 4to
- Keywords
- Insects; sisyphus; wasps; locusts; praying mantis; beetle; glow-worm; mason-wasp; psyches; cricket; anthrax fly; spanish copris; decticus;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Environment/Nature;
Terms of Sale
Andmeister Books
Payment accepted via PayPal (to pay@andmeisterbooks.co.uk) or Cheque in GBSterling (payable to Andmeister Books). Refunds on Returns: A full refund of the purchase price will be given if returned within 15 days. Shipping costs are based on books weighing up to 1 KG. If your book order is very heavy, we will contact you to let you know extra shipping is required.
About the Seller
Andmeister Books
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London, Middlesex
About Andmeister Books
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- 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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