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Learning to Fly: A Season With the Peregrine Falcon
by Liotta, P. H
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0945575157
- ISBN 13
- 9780945575153
- Seller
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About This Item
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Stated First printing.. Stated First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean beige boards with beige cloth spine, brown lettering on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean blue endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 201 pages. Clean jacket has tiny spot of wear at one corner at base of spine, otherwise no wear, no chips, no tears; not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. In the wilderness setting of the beautiful Adirondacks, P. H. Liotta spends one unforgettable season reintroducing young peregrine falcons to the wild and teaching them to fly. Liotta is also a U.S. Air Force Officer who has piloted supersonic jets, and the parallels he draws are compelling..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30419
- Title
- Learning to Fly: A Season With the Peregrine Falcon
- Author
- Liotta, P. H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Stated First printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0945575157
- ISBN 13
- 9780945575153
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- PEREGRINE FALCONS, BIRDS OF PREY, P. H. LIOTTA, FLYING, FLIGHT, FIRST EDITION, NATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature; Birds;
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