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Land Above the Trees: A Guide to American Alpine Tundra
by Zwinger, Ann
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good -
- ISBN 10
- 0060148233
- ISBN 13
- 9780060148232
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, 1972. Oversized hardcover with price clipped dust jacket, xviii + 489 pages including many drawings throughout, plus endpaper maps and "twenty-four pages [45 photographs] of color plates"; elegant book in appropriate forest green with very bright and clear silver gilt lettering to spine, very gently used, tight in binding, gentle bumps to spine ends but hardly a trace of shelf wear, pale dust speckles and/or foxing spots to top edge, less so to bottom edge, without page penetration, all pages very clean and unmarked; DJ has several tiny chips/tears to top edge, one to bottom edge, now in new mylar protector.. [this copy priced low, priced to go to a good home as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H at cost will be requested] For something completely different, see also our listing for Ivan Doig's This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good -.
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- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044630
- Title
- Land Above the Trees: A Guide to American Alpine Tundra
- Author
- Zwinger, Ann
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060148233
- ISBN 13
- 9780060148232
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- HISTORY FARMING NATURAL SCIENCE Description Purpose Mission ANIMALS WELFARE MORAL ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY Ethics NATURE MAMMALS ECOLOGY ENVIRONMENT WILDLIFE RESCUE research salvation conservation POPULAR CULTURE SOCIAL Human Geography URBAN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature/Natural Science/Pets;
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Eric James
Payment through Biblio, or directly we accept PayPal, money order or cheque (10 days for clearance within Canada before shipment). Shipping by Canada Post. Shipment within 48 hours of receipt of payment.
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