Creatures of the Sea : Being the Life Stories of Some Sea Beasts and Fishes
by Bullen, Frank T
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: The R.T.S. Office. Good+ with no dust jacket. [c1925]. Hardcover. No signatures. Spine very faded. Some foxing.; Reprint. No date [c1925?]. 145, [1 (blank)], [2], (9)-196 pages + colour frontispiece + 29 black and white plates. Green cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 189 x 128mm. Illustrated by Thomas Carreras. Frontispiece illlustration is "Fight between a Sperm Whale and a Giant Squid". Contents: Part One - Some Deep-Sea Monsters: Introduction; The Autobiography of a Sperm Whale; The Mysticetus, or Right Wale; The Humpback Whale; The Rorquals; Sirenia; The Walrus, Morse, or Sea-Horse; The Sea Elephant; Seals; Sea-Serpent; The Turtle; The Cuttle-Fish or Squib; Part Two - Some Deep-Sea Fishes: The Shark; The Albacore; The Bonito; The Flying-Fish; The Dolphin; The Mackerel; Cod; The Herring; The Barracouta; Deep-Sea Chimaeras. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24602
- Title
- Creatures of the Sea : Being the Life Stories of Some Sea Beasts and Fishes
- Author
- Bullen, Frank T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- The R.T.S. Office
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [c1925]
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Reprint
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- 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....