Catch Me a Colobus
by Gerald Durrell
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Companion Book Club, 1974 Book. Illus. by Edward Mortelmans. Very Good. Brown Leatherette Boards. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Tales of Gerald Durrell's expeditions to Sierra Leone and Mexico, full of mishaps and triumphs. 250pp, illustragted with black and white drawings. Gilt bands and lettering to spine and gilt corner lines to boards. All edges tinted. Orange illustrated endpapers. Small nick to top edge, otherwise near fine copy with no marks or inscriptions.
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Details
- Seller
- Washburn Books (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 011151
- Title
- Catch Me a Colobus
- Author
- Gerald Durrell
- Illustrator
- Edward Mortelmans
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- The Companion Book Club
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature, Wildlife and Ecology;
Terms of Sale
Washburn Books
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About the Seller
Washburn Books
Biblio member since 2010
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
Washburn Books is a small family business, based in Yorkshire. We offer a wide variety of hard-to-find and out-of-print books in our virtual store, as well as an offline search service. We take pride in our fast delivery of well packaged books.
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- 12mo
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- Fine
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