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The Bafut Beagles
by Gerald Durrell
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- good/missing
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London: The Reprint Society, 1956. 1st thus. Hardcover. good/missing. Ralph Thompson. Dust jacket missing. Bound in yellow cloth, with gold print in black label on the spine. Prior owner's name on front free end paper; otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. The Reprint Society hard cover, missing dust jacket; 1956. 254 pages, many illustrations by Ralph Thompson. 12mo (7.5"" x 5"") The Bafut Beagles by British naturalist Gerald Durrell tells the story of Durrell's collecting expedition to the Cameroons, made in 1949, with Kenneth Smith. Originally published in 1954, it was Durrell's third book for popular audiences.
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- Bookseller
- Bujoldfan
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10152102bafutbeaglesar
- Title
- The Bafut Beagles
- Author
- Gerald Durrell
- Illustrator
- Ralph Thompson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - good
- Jacket Condition
- missing
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st thus
- Publisher
- The Reprint Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1956
- Pages
- 254
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- travel, animals
- Bookseller catalogs
- nonfiction;
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Bujoldfan
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Salem, Oregon
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 1st Thus
- This indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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