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The Island
by Lockley, R. M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0233960902
- ISBN 13
- 9780233960906
- Seller
-
Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Andre Deutsch Ltd.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 0233960902 . Boards show light shelf wear with small corner bumps. Price clipped DJ is lightly soiled with short tears and light chipping. Gift inscription on illustrated pastedown. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Illustrations; 8.9 X 6.2 X 0.9 inches; 192 pages; Lockley spent 13 years on the island of Skokholm (a renowned bird sanctuary off the coast of Wales) studying the birds, first on his own and then with his wife and daughter .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19236
- Title
- The Island
- Author
- Lockley, R. M
- Illustrator
- C.F. Tunnicliffe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0233960902
- ISBN 13
- 9780233960906
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- 0233960902, shearwaters, puffins, Petrels, guillemots
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
Terms of Sale
Ainsworth Books
Satisfaction guaranteed - if I have made an error in the description, I will refund book and shipping both ways. If the customer just changes his/her mind I will only refund one shipping charge. Please contact me before sending a book back. Any dust jackets on books will have a Mylar protector. Books shipped from US or Canada.
About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
Biblio member since 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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