Wild Heritage
by Carrighar, Sally
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. Book. Illus. by Rachel S. Horne, Illustrator. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Near Fine. Rachel S. Horne, Illustrator. Stated First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Very clean beige cloth boards with stamped silver lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Nicely illustrated by Rachel S. Horne. 276 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, very slight surface wear at top spine edge, no tears, nice photo and brief bio of author on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. An intrigueing book on animal behavior, showing how close our behavior is to that of other animals and how much we can discover from them about ourselves..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026646
- Title
- Wild Heritage
- Author
- Carrighar, Sally
- Illustrator
- Rachel S. Horne, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- NATURE, NATURAL HISTORY, ANIMAL BEHAVIOR, HUMAN FIRST EDITION, PRINTING, SALLY CARRIGHAR, RACHEL S. HORNE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animals; Nature;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
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