The Yellow Book of Birds of America: Swallows, Wrens, Hummingbirds, Flycatchers, Woodpeckers, Phoebes, Quail, Etc
by Ashbrook, Frank G.; Illustrations by Paul Moller
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good -
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
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About This Item
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing, 1941. Small oblong hardcover without dust jacket, 60 pages including a full colour illustration of each bird, but one page has been removed; very gently used, tight in sewn binding, mustard yellow covers with only light shelf wear to spine ends and corners, child's name in ink on title page, all text and illustration pages very clean and unmarked, pages fresh and white. See also our listing for Ashbrook's The Green Book of Birds of America: Warblers, Chickadees, Kinglets, Nuthatches, Tanagers, Thrushes, Waxwings, Vireos, etc., and for more nature for children, see also our listings for Dorothy Shuttlesworth's Exploring Nature with Your Child: An Introduction to the Enjoyment and Understanding of Nature, and for Henri Leclercq's extremely scarce Nature Around the Year, as well as for an earlier classic, Conservation and Nature Activities, Compiled by Canadian Nature Magazine Contributors, Edited by Reginald Whittemore (buy two or more and save on postage!). . Hard Cover. Very Good -.
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- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044824
- Title
- The Yellow Book of Birds of America: Swallows, Wrens, Hummingbirds, Flycatchers, Woodpeckers, Phoebes, Quail, Etc
- Author
- Ashbrook, Frank G.; Illustrations by Paul Moller
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Publisher
- Whitman Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Racine, Wisconsin
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- NATURE NATURAL SCIENCE BIRDS WATCHING BIRDWATCHING ORNITHOLOGY CHILD CHILDREN JUVENILE EDUCATION NONFICTION TEACHING RESOURCE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile Nonfiction; Nature/Natural Science/Pets;
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Eric James
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