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New Naturalist No. 20 THE BRITISH AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES [ JOHN KARSLAKE THOMAS BUCHAN-HEPBURN'S copy ]
by Smith, Malcolm
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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Launceston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Collins, 1951. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. JOHN KARSLAKE THOMAS BUCHAN-HEPBURN'S copy of The British Amphibians and Reptiles with his engraved bookplate to the front paste-down. A review copy with loosely inserted "The Field" headed paper dated 13 September 1951. "Would you care to write a short review of the enclosed book - With the Editor's Compliments and thanks. Sir J. Buchan-Hepburn Bt." pp. 322, 33b/w photographs, 18 colour photographs 93 b/w diagrams & maps. Dust jacket fine, not price clipped, a little, protected in a removable archival sleeve. Green hardcover boards fine. Contents clean and tight, engraved bookplate to the front paste-down as described previously. A fine bright first edition in a near fine jacket. [John Karslake was a sportsman, reviewer and author who wrote "The Time of Life: Papers on Sport & Country Life", Robert Hale 1945, illus. Nigel Lovett.].
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- Bookseller
- Loe Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 038039
- Title
- New Naturalist No. 20 THE BRITISH AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES [ JOHN KARSLAKE THOMAS BUCHAN-HEPBURN'S copy ]
- Author
- Smith, Malcolm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1951
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Amphibians, New Naturalist
- Bookseller catalogs
- New Naturalist;
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
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