South China Birds
by Caldwell, Harry R. & Caldwell, John C
- 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
Shanghai: Hester May Vanderburgh, 1931 Shanghai: Hester May Vanderburgh, 1931 (18) 447 pp with six color and numerous B&W plates in text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Black cloth boards with gold-stamped title are clean and square with front hinge cracked and a partial split of the cloth along the rear hinge. " A complete, popular and scientific account of nearly five hundred and fifty forms of birds found in Fukien, Kwangtung, Kiangsi, Kiangsu and Chekiang provinces, Illustrated by more than seventy-five original half tones of birds in life, nests, eggs and haunts, from photographs by the authors, and Morris Caldwell." plus stories and legends by Muriel E. Csldwell. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presumed First. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Allison, Professor Andrew.. Presumed First.. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Allison, Professor Andrew.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 200514
- Title
- South China Birds
- Author
- Caldwell, Harry R. & Caldwell, John C
- Illustrator
- Allison, Professor Andrew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Presumed First.
- Publisher
- Hester May Vanderburgh
- Place of Publication
- Shanghai
- Date Published
- 1931
- Bookseller catalogs
- China;
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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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- Hinge
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- Cracked
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- Cloth
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