The Observer's Book of Pond Life. Illustrated by E.C. Mansell. EARLY ISSUE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by CLEGG John
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Frederick Warne,, [1956]. Sm. 8vo., with 32 coloured plates and 16 plates in monochrome by Mansell, 16 photographs by the author, numerous illustrations in the text and endpaper charts; original pale blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in darker blue, backstrip lightly browned else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Observer 24. Print code 934.156. 'A classic, perhaps the most successful natural history title after Birds, it was first devised as a companion to the author's Freshwater Life of the British Isles' (Marren & Carter). Marren & Carter p.160.
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- Island Books (GB)
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- Title
- The Observer's Book of Pond Life. Illustrated by E.C. Mansell. EARLY ISSUE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- CLEGG John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne,
- Date Published
- [1956]
- Keywords
- natural history, pond life, observers books, john clegg, observer's books, observer's, book, pond, life
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