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The Pleasure of Birds: An Audubon Treasury
by Less, Line -Editor and the Audubon Society
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0397010656
- ISBN 13
- 9780397010653
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia and New York: Published in cooperation with the National Audubon Society by Lippincott, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Chuck Ripper. Type: Hardback First Printing of First Edition. . Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition, No Jacket. Marvelous drawings by Chuck Ripper and exquisite photography. Bound in golden cloth black titled on spine. Very clean and unmarked, with front corners gently bumped, light rubbing to extremities. Tight, solid, square sewn binding. Internals As New. Endpapers with illustration of a marsh scene; title page and verso illustrated with a winter scene. Essays, Addresses, Lectures by various experts on birds in various habitats, with a short biography of each author at the end of the book. Wonderfully informative, interesting, and beautiful. 191 pages. 11.5 x 8.5 inches. Published in cooperation with the National Audubon Society by Lippincott, Philadelphia and New York, 1975.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013846
- Title
- The Pleasure of Birds: An Audubon Treasury
- Author
- Less, Line -Editor and the Audubon Society
- Illustrator
- Chuck Ripper
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0397010656
- ISBN 13
- 9780397010653
- Publisher
- Published in cooperation with the National Audubon Society by Lippincott
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia and New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Size
- 4to - over 9?" - 12" t
- Keywords
- BIRDS-ADDRESSES, ESSAYS, LECTURES; AUDUBON SOCIETY;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Birds, Bird Watching;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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