Wings of the Wild
by von Michaëlis, H
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
(Cape Town: Central News Agency, 1953). Small 4to; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. 107; colour plates; line drawings in text. Dustwrapper rather foxed and a little edgeworn; tape marks to dustwrapper flaps and endpapers; some foxing to endpapers and edges. Good condition. "Even without the many delightful and masterly executed illustrations, the heroes of this book, birds of divergent nature, spring into life in a plastic and convincing manner, holding the reader's sympathetic attention from the first to the last page." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12699
- Title
- Wings of the Wild
- Author
- von Michaëlis, H
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (Cape Town: Central News Agency, 1953)
- Keywords
- Bird illustration. Nature study Birds
- Bookseller catalogs
- Birds;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
All books offered subject to availability. Returns are accepted where we have erred materially in our description of goods.
About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Biblio member since 2018
Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...