BIRD OBSERVATIONS NEAR CHICAGO.
by Farwell, Ellen Drummond
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Deerfield, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Lake Forest, Illinois: Privately Published, 1919. first edition. hardcover. Very good. 12mo, green cloth covers with gilt titles. Illustrated in halftone, with a frontis. portrait of the author and several photo reproductions of bird. Introduction by Mary Drummond. Foreword by John V. Farwell. (Jr.) 192 pages. Includes a chapter: Notes Made From Collection of Birds in Illinois building at the World's Fair. The author was the first wife of John V. Farwell, Jr.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000017351
- Title
- BIRD OBSERVATIONS NEAR CHICAGO.
- Author
- Farwell, Ellen Drummond
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Privately Published
- Place of Publication
- Lake Forest, Illinois
- Date Published
- 1919
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Bird-watching, Lake Forest, Ardleigh, Elmhurst, Columbian Exposition.
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Alkahest Books
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Deerfield, Illinois
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Alkahest Books was established in1984. We started as an open shop on Central St. in Evanston, IL, and sold books there until 2002 and later were part of Chicago Rare Book Center which closed in 2017. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and IOBA and sell both online and at book fairs. International customers should ask for a shipping quote before ordering as the rates given are only for smaller books.
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...