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Fading Trails: The Story of Endangered American Wildlife
by Edited by Charles Elliott
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- Seller
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Waccabuc, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. Walter A. Weber. The 1942 1st edition, in its uncommon pictorial dustjacket. Solid and VG+ (very light foxing at the pastedowns and endsheets) in a bright, price-clipped, VG dustjacket, with light chipping at the tips and the spine ends, and light creasing --with several small closed tears-- along the panel edges. Octavo, wonderfully illustrated by Walter A. Weber. "Prepared by a Committee of the United States Department of the Interior: National Park Service -- Fish and Wildlife Service."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21422
- Title
- Fading Trails: The Story of Endangered American Wildlife
- Author
- Edited by Charles Elliott
- Illustrator
- Walter A. Weber
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- rare ecology, rare natural history, histories of endangered American wildlife
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
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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....
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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