A History of the Game Birds, Wild-Fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and Adjacent States
by Forbush, Edward Howe
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- Hardcover
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: The Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, 1916. Second Edition. Very good+ in green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is mildly rubbed and worn. Without a dust jacket. 636 pages including an index "Including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers: also the means for conserving those still in existence." Illustrated with drawings and with photographs.
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB20411
- Title
- A History of the Game Birds, Wild-Fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and Adjacent States
- Author
- Forbush, Edward Howe
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1916
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Good+
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- Gilt
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.