River World: Wild Life of the Mississippi
by Eifert, Virginia S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd Mead, 1959. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Dodd Mead, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. First Edition in original dust jacket. Turquoise blue cloth boards with black cattail illustration on cover, black lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying, very small area of slight fading at top spine edge. Binding is tight, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. Map-illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with drawings. 271 pages with index. Dust jacket is quite clean (very small faint water stain at top rear panel corner, no chips, a few short closed edge tears; price clip to front in side flap; very nice photo and brief bio of author on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029102
- Title
- River World: Wild Life of the Mississippi
- Author
- Eifert, Virginia S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Dodd Mead
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- MISSISSIPPI RIVER, AMERICAN RIVERS, WILDLIFE, VIRGINIA S. EIFERT, FIRST EDITION, NATURE, NATURAL HISTORY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature;
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Stanley, New York
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- Cloth
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- Good+
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- First Edition
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