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How Life Begins: The Science of Life in the Womb
by Vaughan, Christopher
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0812921038
- ISBN 13
- 9780812921038
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Times Books/Random House, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet, stated best what this book is about: " The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would probably be more interesting, and contain events of greater moment, than all the three score and ten years that follow it". Ivory half cloth binding with bronze titles, white marblelized design paper-covered boards. Except for a few specks on the ivory cloth, very clean and unmarked. Lower corners and edge near corner rubbed. Tight and solid. Text block edges have light pink spotting. Internals quite clean and free from any marks, no creasing. Jacket is Fine, bright, clean, unmarked. 290 pages, indexed. 9.6 x 6.5 inches. 1996, Times Books/Random House, New York, New York, USA
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012334
- Title
- How Life Begins: The Science of Life in the Womb
- Author
- Vaughan, Christopher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0812921038
- ISBN 13
- 9780812921038
- Publisher
- Times Books/Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1996
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES FETUS HUMAN EMBRYO REPRODUCTION MEDICINE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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- Fine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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