Living Treasure
by Sanderson, Ivan T. (1911-1973)
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.
Yellow decorated cloth, hand-soiled with age toning on the spine and perimeter. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 8vo; 9.5 inches tall; 290 pages with an index; Map endpages and 32 illustrations by the author on plates. First Edition, First Printing. . An account of an expedition to Jamaica, British Honduras (now Belize) and the Yucatan illustrated with Sanderson's drawings, The volume contains accounts of his scientific expeditions, but they are addressed to a popular audience and include somewhat purple prose of the beauties of nature, as well as humorous anecdotes, some of which may be exaggerated.
Ivan Terence Sanderson was a British biologist along with Belgian-French biologist Bernard Heuvelmans, Sanderson was a founding figure of cryptozoology, a pseudoscience and subculture. Sanderson authored material on paranormal subjects and wrote fiction under the pen name Terence Roberts.
Yellow decorated cloth, hand-soiled with age toning on the spine and perimeter. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 8vo; 9.5 inches tall; 290 pages with an index; Map endpages and 32 illustrations by the author on plates. First Edition, First Printing. . An account of an expedition to Jamaica, British Honduras (now Belize) and the Yucatan illustrated with Sanderson's drawings, The volume contains accounts of his scientific expeditions, but they are addressed to a popular audience and include somewhat purple prose of the beauties of nature, as well as humorous anecdotes, some of which may be exaggerated.
Ivan Terence Sanderson was a British biologist along with Belgian-French biologist Bernard Heuvelmans, Sanderson was a founding figure of cryptozoology, a pseudoscience and subculture. Sanderson authored material on paranormal subjects and wrote fiction under the pen name Terence Roberts.
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- Bookseller
- Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA] (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014981
- Title
- Living Treasure
- Author
- Sanderson, Ivan T. (1911-1973)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- Zoology; West Indies; Caribbean Sea
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