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The Living Forest: A World of Animals
by Rien Poortvliet
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. . Previous owners' name and date to the first blank.
- ISBN 10
- 0450048071
- ISBN 13
- 9780450048074
- Seller
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: New English Library, 1979. Hardback. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. . Previous owners' name and date to the first blank.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (brown boards with gilt titling to the spine & upper board) Physically 12¼” x 8¼” (1.4 kg); 0pp; Translated by Marlies Comjean; Preface by Robert Elman; Includes: Black & white drawings; Colour drawings; Colour frontispiece; Illustrated lining papers; Title page vignette; ISBN: 0-4500-4807-1 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #199291|| Condition:
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 199291
- Title
- The Living Forest: A World of Animals
- Author
- Rien Poortvliet
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. . Previous owners' name and date to the first blank.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0450048071
- ISBN 13
- 9780450048074
- Publisher
- London: New English Library
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- forest animals, forest vertebrates, forest fauna, northern hemisphere forests, temperate forests, first edition books, books by rien poortvliet, robert elman, 0-4500-4807-1, marlies comjean
Terms of Sale
BookLovers of Bath
As a distance seller based in England, I am required to abide by the terms of the "Distance Selling Act", details of which are freely available. This ensures that you have the highest degree of protection when purchasing from me. Alongside that, I prefer to treat my customers in the manner that I expect to be treated; my guarantee is complete satisfaction or your money back - I aim to please, not just for the one book sale but to ensure that should you require another book, another time that my name against it means it gets your consideration.
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset
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BookLovers of Bath is set in the pastoral idyll of Peasedown St. John in Somerset (God's Own Country) in the south west of England. My wife and I owned the village Post Office until the modern world caught up with us in 2014. At that point I converted the premises to a small book shop, Fact or Fable, with a stock of around 4,000 titles in stock. I've been selling books worldwide since 1997 and rather hope to get the hang of it shortly…
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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