Sea-Birds: And the Lessons of Their Lives
by Surr, Elizabeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
London: T. Nelson and Sons. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1876. Hardcover. Tight clean book, unmarked but for florid presentation note to front endpaper; in clean red cloth with slight shelfwear; red boards stamped in black with gilt decoration. Five impressive tissue guarded paintings. 37 birds have their own chapters. No date on copyright page. ; 4.25 x 6"; 192 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- B-Line Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53813
- Title
- Sea-Birds: And the Lessons of Their Lives
- Author
- Surr, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Publisher
- T. Nelson and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1876
- Bookseller catalogs
- BIRDS;
Terms of Sale
B-Line Books
Return: If the book is not as described, we will refund cost of book and shipping. If for any reason the buyer does not want the book, even though it is as described, we will offer a refund minus shipping both ways (within 14 days).
About the Seller
B-Line Books
Biblio member since 2003
Amherst, Nova Scotia
About B-Line Books
B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
Glossary
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...