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Used-Good. Good hardback in Fair dust jacket. 1952 14th edition with numerous colour and B&W illustrations; binding cracked and repaired; green cloth cover with gilt design to front and onlay to spine. Dust jacket discoloured with wear, tear and losses to edges and corners. Page fore-edges discoloured. Internally, pages themselves are clean and bright; overall, a good, usable copy.
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Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (Aquariums, Exotic Fish) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. Hardcover edition. (Reference, Exotic Fish, Aquariums) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
This book I love mostly for the insight it provides into how fishkeeping has been in the past. Many of the concepts and descriptions of the fishes are still relevant, and the actual world map on the inside of the cover gives a real "Indiana Jones" kind of feel to the book. The colorized B/W photos are also an interesting historical artifact of an age when color photography wasn't up to the task. The fact that the book was also printed by the author's family printing company is another little gem from a bygone age. It would seem that the author was a bit of a gentleman scientist and author, who was not an academic, but a self funded enthusiast.
I only give 4 marks because it's not fully relevant in this day and age.
