London: Frederick Warne, 1936 New edition Hard cover. Blue leatherette cloth, with gilt titles to spine and front ; grey /light blue dustjacket with Purple Emperor colour plate pasted to front, rounded corners. Blue speckled edges. 212 pages . 7/6 price to front flap. Latest title listed on back of jacket: The Seas, colour pictures of every species. Very Good in Very Good+ protected jacket. Clean and bright covers, Previous owners name , prelim pages have some light foxing . Jacket clean and bright, spine browned as usual, light creasing to corner and spine ends, Pictures available.

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Bookseller: David Ford Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 34991
Title: The Butterflies of the British Isles
Author: South, Richard:
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: Frederick Warne, 1936
Bookseller catalogs: Natural History;

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Payment by GB Sterling Pound cheque, Bank Transfer, PAYPAL. Any extra postage required will be quoted at time of order confirmation. Books may be returned within 7 days, with prior notification, if not as described

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Cley-Next-The-Sea, Norfolk

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About David Ford Books

Member of Provincial Bookfairs Association.
David Ford Books is a member of the P.B.F.A. and sells a wide range of quality out of print and antiquarian books through their book sales and at bookfair throughout the UK. The condition of our books is of the utmost importance to us, with few falling below the VG and many in Fine condition. All dust wrappers are protected. Should you wish to discuss a book, or your requirements, please do not hesitate to contact us by email or (as I prefer to talk to customers personally) by telephone.

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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...
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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.,...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.