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Green Laurels: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Naturalists
by Peattie, Donald Culross
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG
- Seller
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Alliance, Ohio, United States
Item Price
$10.00$5.00
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About This Item
NY: Garden City Publishing. VG. 1938. Reprint. Hardcover. Stated De Luxe Edition. Later printing, originally published in 1936. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2", 368 page hardcover. A Very Good copy in a Fair dust j acket. Rubs to the book's corners. Some fading to its upper edges. Th e front endpaper shows glue marks from where a book plate had been aff ixed. Tanning to the endpapers. The dust jacket is heavily worn and du st soiled. Large chips and tears to the spine and front panel. .
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- Bookseller
- Dearly Departed Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2679
- Title
- Green Laurels: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Naturalists
- Author
- Peattie, Donald Culross
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Garden City Publishing
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1938
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- NATURAL, HISTORY
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Dearly Departed Books
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Alliance, Ohio
About Dearly Departed Books
Selling books since 1978. We specialize in SF, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Western & Pulp Fiction. With an inventory of more than 35,000 Hardcover 1st editions, Vintage Paperbacks , Pulp Magazines & general antiquarian books. Store front open by chance or appointment.
Glossary
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
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