London: The Scientific Book Club No date. 160 pages. Title page illustrated with black and white plate by Joan Hassall. Illustrated in text with more detailed black and white wood engravings by Ms. Hassall. White pages clean, good condition. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste down endpaper, otherwise endpapers clean. Red cloth, black title on spine. Edges and corners bumped. Green dust jacket worn at edges and corners. Small tears at edges. VG+/Good. Hard Cover. Illus. by Hassall, Joan.

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Seller: J. Wyatt Books (CA)
Seller's Inventory #: 026613
Title: THE STRANGE WORLD OF NATURE
Author: Gooch, Bernard
Illustrator: Hassall, Joan
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Publisher: The Scientific Book Club
Place of Publication: London
Keywords: Nature, Animals, Science,
Bookseller catalogs: Natural History;

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Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...