Author Name: SHAW, CHARLES E. AND SHELDON CAMPBELL.
Title: SNAKES OF THE AMERICAN WEST.
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
Edition: First edition
Publisher: New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1974.
Seller ID: 2654
Planned in conjunction with the San Diego Zoo (acknowledged as the world's finest), a book representing the snake rich section of the American West. From the Baja deserts to the Canadian border and eastward to the Rockies. Deadly coral snakes, rattlesnakes, oddities like the leaf-nosed snake and vine snake, kinsnakes, rosy boas, etc. This book comprehensively deals with their habits, appearance and characteristics, how they catch prey, shed their skins, raise their young, hears, see, smell and move. Detailed range maps show the distribution of each species and important sub-species. Illustrated with 74 color photographs with range maps and line drawings.
Brown cloth boards and spine, gitl lettering to spine. DW not price clipped, white, color photo of snake. Spine ends bumped, upper spine end closed tears, rear upper edge few small closed tears. Front inside flap mild crease to upper edge, all else clean, tightly bound, no writing. sm 4 to, 330 pp First edition.
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