Oliver & Boyd, 1963. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1963. Reprint. 560 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth with a colour illustrated frontis and black and white illustrated plates throughout. Minor tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and minor tanning to text block edges. Boards have minor rubbing and light bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear and mild rubbing. Heavier sunning to spine.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1643364972ADA
Title: Popular Handbook of Indian Birds
Author: Hugh Whistler
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good/Good
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Oliver & Boyd
Date Published: 1963

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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....
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.