West Coast Shells. A Familiar Description of the Marine, Fresh Water, and Land Mollusks of the United States, Found West of the Rocky Mountains

Published by Samuel Carson & Co, San Francisco, 1888

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Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB)

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Octavo. 230pp. Original brown cloth with gilt-stamped shell on cover, gilt lettering on cover and spine. Red edges. Frontispiece lithograph, with tissue guard. "The kind reception given to my little book on the "Common Sea-shells of California," has induced me to prepare this larger work, embracing a wider territory, namely, that part of the United States lying west of the Rocky Mountains. The present volume includes descriptions of all the species mentioned in the former one, together with many others of the more minute and uncommon marine shells which are found from Puget Sound or Alaska on the North, to San Diego on the south." (Author). Illustrated with b/w drawings of shells in text throughout. Biographical index, key for the analysis of shells, glossary and check list and index of species at rear. Binding with some wear along edges, medium chip at foredge, light scuffing along front joint of spine, very light fraying at head and tail. Price tag on front free endpaper. Frontispiece plate and tissue guard with foxing, not affecting image. Light age-toning of block. Binding and interior in overall good condition. …

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Title
West Coast Shells. A Familiar Description of the Marine, Fresh Water, and Land Mollusks of the United States, Found West of the Rocky Mountains
Author
Keep, Josiah
Publisher
Samuel Carson & Co, San Francisco
Publication year
1888
Condition
g
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
First edition.
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ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB)

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Since 1985 we offer individual books for sale from our inventory of 150,000 rare, out-of-print and antiquarian volumes on many topics, with an emphasis on Judaica, Hebraica, Bibles and rabbinics, the fine and decorative arts, architecture, photography, textile and wallpaper sample books, Bauhaus and the avant garde, expressionist dance, Olympic Games and sport, the ancient near-east and archeology, erotica, illustrated and foreign-language books, especially German, Yiddish, Polish and Hebrew, as well as books from the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, plus Russian constructivist materials. We create book collections, both large and small, for individuals, decorators, archives and libraries¿currently available: a 10,000-volume research collection on Judaica in the German language. In addition, we maintain a beguiling selection of original works of art and photography. Eric Chaim Kline provides appraisal services for estate, insurance and tax purposes, often helping to match book donors with libraries and museums. We purchase books of merit and entire collections; we also take books on consignment with favorable terms. We are a rental source for movie and tv production, occasionally providing the prop on which the plot turns. Traveling throughout the U.S. and Europe, Eric Chaim Kline has been buying and selling old and rare books since the 1980¿s, when in graduate school at Brandeis University. Proprietor of bookshops in several Los Angeles locations since 1985, he hosts visitors by appointment in our lively bookstore and ships books to collectors, libraries and museums worldwide. Kline occasionally lectures on topics in book collecting and Jewish studies. He sponsors the annual Bibliography Award granted by the Association of Jewish Libraries and serves on the national board of the Antiquarian Booksellers¿ Association of America. We welcome your inquiries.…

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