Catch Me a Colobus
by Gerald Malcolm Durrell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0002111489
- ISBN 13
- 9780002111485
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
First UK hardcover edition, with dust jacket,published by Collins, 1972. The dust jacket is price clipped. Collection of humorous stories about the author's search for strange and exotic creatures in danger of extinction for the Durrell Wildlife Park on Jersey. From an expedition to Sierra Leone to find a colobus, to a Mexico to find the Volcano rabbit,and many more. Jacket has been protected with a clear, removable cover. Light olive green cloth covered boards, with the title and author name on the spine in gold. Boards are flat, the corners are not bumped or creased, no edge wear. There is a large gift inscription on the title page - covers the entire page- photo attached . Edges of the text block are relatively clean, though there are some age tanning spots to the top edge. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages - besides that inscription. 221 pages, also includes several illustrations by Edward Mortelmans. The attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory.
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- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21-653
- Title
- Catch Me a Colobus
- Author
- Gerald Malcolm Durrell
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0002111489
- ISBN 13
- 9780002111485
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- Jersey, Durrell Wildlife Park, Durrells
- Bookseller catalogs
- Memoir; Travel; Natural History;
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