Tales of the Birds
by W. Warde Fowler
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Lochcarron, Highland, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Reprint of 2nd edition. Attractive red leather school prize binding with gilt design on front and gilt titles on spine. Decorative endpapers. Fore and lower edges of text block marbled. Ten black and white full-page illustrations by Bryan Hook.
Boards rubbed along edges and on spine; spine faded and with a small chip at the head; with a few light scratches. School prize certificate attached to front pastedown. Pencil price mark on front free endpaper. Light foxing to preliminaries and endleaves; small marks on a few pages but otherwise pages clean. Binding firm.
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- Bookseller
- Kilmaree Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 483
- Title
- Tales of the Birds
- Author
- W. Warde Fowler
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1891
- Pages
- 239
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Ornithology;
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- 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...