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My Family and Other Animals
by Gerald Durrell
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/Very Good
- Seller
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Mona Vale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Rupert Hart-Davis, UK, 1959. Hardcover. Good Condition/Very Good. Eighth Printing. Size: 8vo Octavo (8 to 9 inches). Text body is clean & unmarked. Binding tight, spine fine. Slight foxing front/rear pages, most of text is clean. Minor wear to Dust Jacket. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. Small brown marks from adhesive tape on front and rear endpapers. Remnants of removed bookplate..
Synopsis
My Family and Other Animals is an autobiographical work by naturalist Gerald Durrell, telling of the part of his childhood he spent on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939. It describes the life of the Durrell Family on the island in a humorous manner, and also richly discusses the fauna of the island. It is the first and most famous of Durrell's Corfu trilogy, together with Birds, Beasts, and Relatives, and The Garden of the Gods.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shiny Owl Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37880
- Title
- My Family and Other Animals
- Author
- Gerald Durrell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Rupert Hart-Davis
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- BZDB157 Travel & Places; Gerald Durrell My Family and Other Animals
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- Bookplate
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- Tight
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- Fine
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