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THE PEREGRINE by Baker, J.A
- Bookseller: Buday Books / Vintage Reading (TM)
(US)
- Seller Inventory #: 1893
- Book condition: Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; rear endpaper renewed; otherwise good.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Harper & Row,
- Place: NY:
- Date published: 1967
- Pages: 191pp.
Description
NY:: Harper & Row,, 1967. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; rear endpaper renewed; otherwise good.. First American edn. ||| Englishman's 10-year observation of life & habits of the peregrine falcon, `bird of nobility,' favorite of kings. Peregrines are expert hunters, zooming down on their prey at speeds up to 180 m.p.h.
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