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Flies of the British Isles
by COLYER, Charles N & HAMMOND, Cyril O
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Grange over Sands, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Flies of the British Isles
COLYER, Charles N & HAMMOND, Cyril O
Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, London, 1951, 1st Edition, hardback with dust wrapper, VG/vg, boards bound with maroon faux leather covers, gilt title to spine, gilt vignette to front, decorated end papers, text block with rounded corners and red/blue mottled edges, colour frontispiece in addition to 48 colour plates, 55 half-tone plates, and numerous text figures and diagrams, 383 pp. Boards clean and firm, gentle rubs to head and tail of spine, no inscription or annotations, sound tight binding, pages clean and bright, edges of text block mottle printed, small dark mark to bottom fore-edge corner. Chips and rubs to wrapper (see scans), 1.5cm chip to top edge of back cover, old repair with Sellotape visible, damp has caused colour bleeding to inside of wrapper, grubby in places, not clipped, now protected by acid-free archive film. NATURAL HISTORY, 1st EDITION, INVERTEBRATES, FLIES, SPECIES, FAMILIES, IDENTIFICATION, KEYS, ILLUSTRATED
HB 77 45862 NATURAL HISTORY £31.50
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- Bookseller
- Daisyroots Books Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45862
- Title
- Flies of the British Isles
- Author
- COLYER, Charles N & HAMMOND, Cyril O
- Illustrator
- Cyril. O. Hammond
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1951
- Pages
- 383 pp
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- NATURAL HISTORY, 1st EDITION, INVERTEBRATES, FLIES, SPECIES, FAMILIES, IDENTIFICATION, KEYS, ILLUSTRATED
- Bookseller catalogs
- NAT HIST countryside;
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Daisyroots Books Ltd
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Grange over Sands, Cumbria
About Daisyroots Books Ltd
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...
- 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...
- 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...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
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