Calburn's Birds of Southern Africa: Paintings, Field Sketches and Field Notes (First Edition)
by Calburn, Simon
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
Cape Town, Johannesburg, London: Purnell, 1969. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, lightly bumped, oil stained at the bottom corner near the spine, jacke has a two inch oil stain at the bottom from the spine, clear tape reinforcement at the top of the spine, jacket price clipped. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall a GOOD book in a FAIR brodart protected dust jacket.. First Edition. Full Cloth. Good/Fair. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- Ziern-Hanon Galleries
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017917
- Title
- Calburn's Birds of Southern Africa: Paintings, Field Sketches and Field Notes (First Edition)
- Author
- Calburn, Simon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Purnell
- Place of Publication
- Cape Town, Johannesburg, London
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- Folio - over 12" - 15"
- Keywords
- Xyz
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- Folio
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- Jacket
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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...
- First Edition
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- Price Clipped
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
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