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A History of the Game Birds, Wild-Fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and Adjacent States
by Forbush, Edward Howe
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: The Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, 1912. First Edition. First printing Very good+ in green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 5/8 by 6 1/2 inches with a one inch long strip of paint to the lower edge of the front board and with very light rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. Without a dust jacket. 622 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 existance." Illustrated with drawings by W. I. Beecroft and the author and with photographs by Herbert K. Job and others.
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB32414
- 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
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1912
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Deep River, Connecticut
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- 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....
- Gilt
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- Rubbing
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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