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A Whale For the Killing
by Mowat Farley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0771065701
- ISBN 13
- 9780771065705
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto, Ont: McClleland & Stewart Inc.. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771065701 . Maps and diagrams on pasteboards. Navy blue cloth boards. Head and tail of spine are slightly bumped, otherwise book is in good condition. The DJ is unclipped and a has small rip on front cover, Chipping on the top and bottom of spine. Water stains on the inside of the DJ and smaller amounts on the outside. Text clean and unmarked, DJ unclipped. "World-renowned for his passionate tales of survival, Farley Mowat wrote his new book to symbolize the plight of all whales preyed on by man for commercial profit. A Whale for the Killing is an urgent, eloquent plea to stop the massacre now...before the entire species is doomed to extinction." ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 239 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 150
- Title
- A Whale For the Killing
- Author
- Mowat Farley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0771065701
- ISBN 13
- 9780771065705
- Publisher
- McClleland & Stewart Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Ont
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- 0771065701, Marine Life, Whales, Newfoundland, Enviromental
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature; Canadiana;
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About the Seller
Bytown Bookery
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Vars, Ontario
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- New
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- Chipping
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
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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....
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