My Family and Other Animals
by Gerald Durrell
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair to Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. Book. Fair to Good. Hardcover. Eighth Impression. 150mm 220mm. Clipped jacket has moderate general wear. Spine sunned with a very small loss at the foot and head. A couple of 1cm tears also. Moderate foxing to edges of page-block. Ink stamp of name to ffep and rear pastedown. Some foxing to preliminaries and last few page. Sporadic foxing to some page margins. Binding tight. Jacket design by Ralph Thompson.255pp.
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
- Lectioz Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028578
- Title
- My Family and Other Animals
- Author
- Gerald Durrell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair to Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- Eighth Impression
- Publisher
- Rupert Hart-Davis
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Size
- 150mm 220mm
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lectioz Books
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Gloucester, New South Wales
About Lectioz Books
Welcome to Lectioz. We are an internet-based bookseller located in Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia.The majority of our inventory is non-fiction, with a bias towards the Arts - in all its forms. In addition we stock books on Australian History, Natural History, Transport, Exploration, Science and many other subjects
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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