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Champion Cats of the World
by Ing, Catherine; Pond, Grace
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Steelton, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. The 1978 reprint of a book first published in 1972 is in Fine condition, with a Fine price-unclipped dust jacket. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. The book is chock full of color photographs, as well as drawings, of various cat breeds. The book provides histories of the cats from biblical days to the present, as well as details their cultural influence. The book is bound in a lavender-gray cloth with die-stamped silver spine titles. NOTE: FOR DOMESTIC PURCHASE ONLY, due to the book's size, which would make international shipping costs prohibitive. There are no additional shipping costs with Domestic Media Mail, but Domestic Priority Shipping may require a shipping cost adjustment.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Sally Anne Thompson, Photographer. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grimalkin Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002150
- Title
- Champion Cats of the World
- Author
- Ing, Catherine; Pond, Grace
- Illustrator
- Sally Anne Thompson, Photographer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Cats, Cat Breeds, Cat Varieties
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Non-Fiction; Animals, Birds, and Nature;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Terms of Sale
Grimalkin Books
Grimalkin Books is located in Steelton, Pennsylvania, the first town south of Harrisburg. We specialize in older, unusual books and sets, often literary, artistic, or historical. "Grimalkin" is old English for an old gray cat, mainly because the owner, Bob Amsel, is a cat lover. All books subject to prior sale. Payment must be received within 10 days of the order or item will be returned to stock. We accept money orders, bank checks, personal checks (allow time to clear), PayPal or MasterCard/Visa through Biblio's credit card processing service. International orders must be paid in US dollars and can be paid via PayPal, credit card (through ABE), or International Postal Money Order. Your purchase will be carefully packaged to protect it during shipping. Books may not be returned just because the buyer has changed his mind. Only books with actual defects that were not mentioned by the seller in the listing may be returned. Please insure returns for their full value.
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- A.N.
- The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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