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GOLDFISH AND OTHER COLD-WATER FISHES Including the management of AQUARIA & PONDS
by E.M.ATKINS, F.Z.S. then Vice-President , British Aquarium Society , GWENYDD MASON , Artist
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SANDERSTEAD SURREY: PRIVATELY PUBLISHED , 1936 Printed Card covers, 180 x 125 mm approx. 72 pp + 2 of commercial adverts. Frontis colour plate + 36 line figs. in text drawn by Gwenydd Mason. First Edition 1936. Written by then Vice-President , British Aquarium Society and intended for those with no previous experience of fish-keeping. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG/ Fair (Book- light general shelf wear / soiling, no previous owner name or insc. Glue to back strip failing with resultant straining to signatures but sewing holding. Subject related magazine article from "The Lady" loosely laid in. Dust jacket 1/-, Shelf rubbed and soiled with tears and some loss - but still quite respectable in a removable proprietary protective sleeve). A useful handbook which having been privately published would have had a small print run and is now quite scarce especially in it's jacket.
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 127249
- Title
- GOLDFISH AND OTHER COLD-WATER FISHES Including the management of AQUARIA & PONDS
- Author
- E.M.ATKINS, F.Z.S. then Vice-President , British Aquarium Society , GWENYDD MASON , Artist
- Illustrator
- GWENYDD MASON
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- PRIVATELY PUBLISHED
- Place of Publication
- SANDERSTEAD SURREY
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Goldfish & Other Cold-Water Fishes, E M Atkins, Pond and Aquarium Management, Water Plants, Fish Keeping, Cold Water Aquaria,
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- Soiled
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