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THE BADGER (NEW NATURALIST MONOGRAPH)
by ERNEST NEAL
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: COLLINS, 1948 Green Buckram Cloth Boards with gilt titles to spine, 205 x 140 mm approx. xvi + 158 pp. Colour Frontis + 29 in black and white and 12 line drawings as called for. First Edition 1st printing of the First New Naturalist Monographs. Very Good/ Good ( Book- negligible shelf wear to cloth, mild offset browning band to rear free end paper, no previous owner name or insc,25 mm tear with a little loss to bottom margin of frontis. Dust Jacket- mild shelf rubbing with small nicks and a little loss to top front corner,foxing spots showing through chiefly to spine and rear panel including exposed fore edge of rear flap fold, white to spine tanned, non price clipped - cover 12s6d. In a removable proprietary protective sleeve. No other notable defects to book or jacket)
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 133373
- Title
- THE BADGER (NEW NATURALIST MONOGRAPH)
- Author
- ERNEST NEAL
- Illustrator
- CLIFFORD AND ROSEMARY ELLIS (DUST JACKET)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- COLLINS
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- New Naturalists, New Naturalist Monographs, The Badger, Natural History, Science and Natural History, Ernest Neal, Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, Meles Meles Linnaeus,
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- Buckram
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- Gilt
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