The Mute Swan
by Mike Birkhead & Christopher Perrins
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0709932596
- ISBN 13
- 9780709932598
- Seller
-
Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Croom Helm, 1986. Croom Helm, London. 1986 1st edition hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 240 x 160 mm, 157 pages. B/w photos, line drawings. Book Condition: Very good, clean, tight binding, neat owner's plate on front paste-down. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good, clean, unfaded, not clipped. An excellent monograph on the official "Queen's bird" the Mute Swan.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by David Quinn. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pullet's Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000168
- Title
- The Mute Swan
- Author
- Mike Birkhead & Christopher Perrins
- Illustrator
- David Quinn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0709932596
- ISBN 13
- 9780709932598
- Publisher
- Croom Helm
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- Birds, Swan
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Pullet's Books
30 day return guarantee, for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. Original shipping costs not refundable.
About the Seller
Pullet's Books
Biblio member since 2013
Ipswich, Suffolk
About Pullet's Books
Private residence. Internet sales only.I specialise in Natural History, Ornithology, Local History and some walking books. Those listed represent a small proportion of my book stock and welcome search requests of other books I may hold.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...