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Item Details

Description

Title: British Sea Birds

Description: FIRST EDITION.

Written & illustrated by C.A. Gibson-Hill.

Publishers green cloth with gilt vignette.

Gilt title to spine.

Pictorial endpapers.

Frontispiece colour plate.

Full-page photographic plates.

Full-page and in-text illustrations.

A very lovely copy.

Product Details: Publisher

H. F. G. Witherby Ltd., London

Author

C. A. Gibson-Hill

Date Published

1947

Binding

Hardback

Condition

Very Good

Weight

583g

Reserve: $10.00

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