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Lives Of The Hunted: Containing a True Account of the Doings of Five Quadrupeds and Three Birds and in Elueidation of the Same
by Ernest Thompson Seton (1880-1946)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
361 pages with illustrated title, plates and illustrated drawings. Octavo (8" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering a green pictorial to spine and cover. First edition.
Contains Ernest Thompson Seton's 1901 collection of short stories, Lives of the Hunted. These delightful tales are aimed at children and tell the exciting and heart-warming tales of various wild animals.
Condition: Spine and edges sunned else very good.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M0386
- Title
- Lives Of The Hunted: Containing a True Account of the Doings of Five Quadrupeds and Three Birds and in Elueidation of the Same
- Author
- Ernest Thompson Seton (1880-1946)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1901
- Pages
- 361 pages with illustrated title, plates and illustrated drawings
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Miscelaneous;
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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