Pacific Shells: Including the Shells of Hawaii and the Gulf of California. The Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, The Peterson Field Guide Series. Collector's Lifetime Edition
by Percy A. Morris
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1986. Part of the Easton Press 50th Anniversary edition of Roger Tory Peterson Field Guides. Very good other than some chipping to the gilt cover lettering and decoration. Full orange tan leather lettered and decorated in gold and silver gilt, all edges gilt, attached ribbon bookmark. Gilt spine lettering is oxidized but readily legible, considerable oxidation to the gilt front cover design, otherwise very good with tight binding, clean pages, no names or other markings, unused bookplate laid in loosely at the front.. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 042396
- Title
- Pacific Shells: Including the Shells of Hawaii and the Gulf of California. The Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, The Peterson Field Guide Series. Collector's Lifetime Edition
- Author
- Percy A. Morris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, CT
- Date Published
- 1986
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- NATURE NATURAL HISTORY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science, Medicine & Nature;
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- Edges
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Gilt
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- Chipping
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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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...