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Title: Antarctic Penguins

Description: First edition, second impression. "A Study of their Social Habits". Publishers Green cloth with silver title and black vignette. Bookplate on inside. Frontispiece plate with tissue-guard. Title vignette. Full-page photographic plates throughout. Sporadic foxing. A very nice copy.

Product Details:

Publisher: William Heinemann., London

Author: Dr. G. Murray Levick

Date Published: 1914

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Good

Weight: 600g

Reserve: $15.00

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