Birds of Man's World
by Derek Goodwin
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cornell University Press, 1978. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 1978. First Edition. 183 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographs throughout. Signed by the author, with dedication to former owner. Pages are bright and clear with light tanning and foxing to free endpapers and text block edges. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Pencil inscription on front paste-down. Boards have light shelf-wear with minor corner bumping and mild crushing to spine ends. Boards are subtly bowed. Unclipped dust jacket has light wear to surfaces with slight creasing along edges. Lightly tanned overall. price sticker on front flap.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1689858813MHP
- Title
- Birds of Man's World
- Author
- Derek Goodwin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Date Published
- 1978
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...