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Growing Wings.

Growing Wings.

Growing Wings.

Growing Wings.

by Van Vleck, Sarita

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  • Hardcover
  • first
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1963. 8vo. 128 pgs. Near Fine condition hardcover in Very Good jacket. Book is clean and unmarked but for a faint erasure trace on front endpaper, minimal shelf wear. Jacket has a few tiny edge tears and smudges. Stated First Edition on copyright page. Illustrated throughout with engaging Thurber-esque drawings by the author. "Growing Wings contains a great deal of surprising information about the habits, instincts and behavior of birds, told in a way that subtly conveys their personality through a charming sense of caricature". Sections: the bird year, spring migration, territory, courtship, mating, nest building, fertilization, the egg, incubation, hatching, altricial young, precocial young, independence, flocking, fall migration, winter. #1329.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Sarita Van Vleck. 8vo.

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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
1329
Title
Growing Wings.
Author
Van Vleck, Sarita
Illustrator
Sarita Van Vleck
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Doubleday & Co.
Place of Publication
Garden City, NY
Date Published
1963
Size
8vo
Keywords
Bird, Birds, Ornithology, Avian, Behavior, Migration, Behaviour, Nesting, Flocking, Physiology, Ecology
Bookseller catalogs
COMPLETE CATALOG; NON-FICTION, TEXT AND REFERENCE BOOKS; ANIMALS, NATURE, NATURAL SCIENCES; First Editions, Collectible;

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