Indian Hill Birds
by Ali, Salim
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
Bombay, India: Oxford University Press Indian Branch, 1949 188 pp with very fine color illustrations on every page. Text is clean and tight, annotated as to where in the Himalyas the previous owner had sighted each species. Previous owner's name on half-title page Maps of the monsoonal flows on endpapers.Yellow cloth boards are clean but rubbed at spine ends and edges resulting in some material loss. described the birds found in the Himalayas from Burma to Kashmir. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition.. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Henry, G.M..
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- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001476
- Title
- Indian Hill Birds
- Author
- Ali, Salim
- Illustrator
- Henry, G.M.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Indian Branch
- Place of Publication
- Bombay, India
- Date Published
- 1949
- Bookseller catalogs
- India & South Asia;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
Biblio member since 2012
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
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- Spine
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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