American Ornithology; or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States, Volume I
by Wilson, Alexander, and Charles Lucian Bonaparte
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Sugar Grove, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Constable, 1831. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. Poor/No Dust Jacket. Volume I only. A Poor but complete copy (1989 gift inscriprion) in three-quarter brown leather over marbles paper-covered boards. Lacks the spine covering. The front cover is detached but present, and the rear cover is nearly detached. The text block binding is sound, the text is clean, and the frontispiece is present. A reading/binding copy of this small-format 1831 edition. (No plates in this volume, as issued.)
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- Bookseller
- Row by Row Bookshop (US)
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- 049524
- Title
- American Ornithology; or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States, Volume I
- Author
- Wilson, Alexander, and Charles Lucian Bonaparte
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Publisher
- Constable
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1831
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Row by Row Bookshop is an online bookseller. Our stock is eclectic and literary, and is a mix of modern and antiquarian. We also have a booth at the Appalachian Antique Mall, 631 W. King Street, Boone, NC
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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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....