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The Shell Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Families of Living Mollusks, and an Aid to the Identification of Shells Native and Foreign
by Rogers, Julia Ellen
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Webster, New York, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920. Reprint. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Reprint. No jacket. Ink stamp on front paste-down endpaper. 1920 Hard Cover. xxi, 485 pp. Tan cloth boards, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece and plates (8 total), 96 black-and-white plates. CONTENTS: Preface; Part I. How to Know Shells; Part II. The Univalves and Chitons; Part III. The Tooth Shells; Part IV: The Bivalves; Part V: The Cephalopods; Index and Glossary.
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- Bookseller
- Yesterday's Muse Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2336470
- Title
- The Shell Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Families of Living Mollusks, and an Aid to the Identification of Shells Native and Foreign
- Author
- Rogers, Julia Ellen
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Size
- 0x0x0
- Weight
- 2.50 lbs
- Keywords
- SCIENCE NATURE NATURAL HISTORY SHELLS CONCHOLOGY
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About the Seller
Yesterday's Muse Books
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Webster, New York
About Yesterday's Muse Books
Yesterday's Muse Inc. is an independent used & rare bookseller that has been in operation for over 15 years. We opened our first 'brick and mortar' storefront in December of 2008 in our hometown of Webster, NY.Owner Jonathan Smalter is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), former vice president of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), both of which are trade organizations created to promote ethical online selling practices, and to encourage continuing education among fellow booksellers. He is also a 2011 graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS). He has nearly 20 years of experience in the book trade, during which time he has become adept at evaluating used and collectible books.
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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