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The Birds of California. A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the Birds Found in the State, De Luxe Large Paper Edition, 4 volumes, complete
By Dawson, William Leon
SKU# 19903
Pp. xvii, 2121, 110 color plates from paintings by Alan Brooks, 30 photogravures, 120 full page duotone plates and 1100 half-tone text-figures. Publisher's original green fabrikoid cloth, spine with embossed inlay of a gull in flight as well as title, author and volume, top edges gilt, green endpapers, lg. 4to. This is the Format De Luxe Large Paper edition limited to 350 copies. This copy is signed by Dawson but is unnumbered. The Format De Luxe Large Paper edition has the full complement of plates including the color plates, photogravures, and duotone plates. The Large Paper edition has wider margins than other editions of this work. William Leon Dawson was an American ornithologist and graduate of Oberlin College and Oberlin Theological Seminary.
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Publisher |
South Moulton Co. |
| Publisher Place | San Diego |
| Date Published | 1923 |
| Date Published Estimated | No |
| Edition | First edition |
| Number of Volumes | 1 |
| Reprint | No |
| Condition | Very good |
| Condition Description | Light rubbing to the outer joints, some rubbing to the fabrikoid at the base of the spine of volume three, some frontis pages with mild foxing; a tight copy in very good condition. |
| ISBN | |
| Limited Edition |