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Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dust jacket. Sandstrom, George [Sandström] (illustrator). First Edition. Greenville, Delaware:: Delaware Museum of Natural History, 1976. A beautiful copy -- clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is bright and shiny. No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh, crisp, and unmarked. Delaware Museum of Natural History, Monograph Series No. 3. Endpaper maps of the islands. Bibliography. List of Island Names. Index. From the Dust Jacket: "Here, for the first time in one volume, are the 183 species of birds from these exotic places [i.e. Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, the Marquesas, etc]. Over 300 forms are described. and 181 species are shown in 226 separate drawings on 31 full-color plates. Some of these species have never before been illustrated; many have never appeared in color." Bound in the original green cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine and front cover. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition./Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Sandstrom, George [Sandström]. 8vo. xii, 218pp.