The Junior Book of Birds
by Peterson, Roger Tory
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939. Chatty briefs on common & singular birds by the pioneering ornithologist, for young readers, based on the author's Bird Lore leaflets; with illustrations & one color plate by the author; other color plates by Allan Brooks, R. Bruce Horsfall, Sawyer, Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; a later printing, without the date on the title page; scarce in the jacket. Book shows some wear, minor bumping to corners, light mottling & insect nibbling; jacket worn with chips, tears, holes. Text clean; xv, blank, 92 pages; line drawings, 24 color plates, as called for (the frontispiece is opposite page [1] rather than the title page). . Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. Illus. by Allan Brooks, R. Bruce Horsfall, Sawyer, Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- v0803
- Title
- The Junior Book of Birds
- Author
- Peterson, Roger Tory
- Illustrator
- Allan Brooks, R. Bruce Horsfall, Sawyer, Louis Agassiz Fuertes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Ornithology, Birding, Natural History, Nature, Environment
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...