BEAR ISLAND.
de MacLEAN**, ALISTAIR:
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- FINE./FINE.
- ISBN 10
- 0002210843
- ISBN 13
- 9780002210843
- Librería
-
PLYMOUTH., Devon, United Kingdom
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.Neat,blue ink,familial gift presentation inscrptn+date and price-clipped dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean, glossy laminated,colour pictorial illustrated front panel with black lettering and spine/backstrip with white lettering, rear panel with author's portrait b/w photograph; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges very lightly toned but bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - inscrptn excepted - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original dark blue with pale green speckled cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and near immaculate plain white endpapers - inscrptn and some light off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps to both free endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,7-286pp [paginated] includes 13 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title page with story precis,title page,a dedication with b/w Bear Island map to its reverse and 2pp blank at rear.Book is remarkably preserved and in a near pristine state.Very few copies survive in as good or as fine a state as this - check the internet - majority are VG or less. Bear Island is situated to the north of North Cape,an area known as the wartime graveyard of the Arctic,where U-boats laid in wait for the Murmansk convoys of 'HMS Ulysses'.MacLean's narrative is set aboard the charter ship 'Morning Rose' as it sails towards the Arctic island of the title.The weather is appalling: the film crew fall ill,some even die.But nobody ever dies from seasickness.There is a murderer aboard. MacLean's last sortie to the Arctic,for a plot.The novel was the basis for the 1980 movie featuring Donald Sutherland,Vanessa Redgrave and Richard Widmark. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
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Detalles
- Librería
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- rja709217
- Título
- BEAR ISLAND.
- Autor
- MacLEAN**, ALISTAIR:
- Estado del libro
- Usado - FINE.
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- FINE.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0002210843
- ISBN 13
- 9780002210843
- Editorial
- LONDON.COLLINS.1971.
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 1971
- Palabras clave
- q52.MODERN FIRSTS2.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 0002210843.HMS ULYSSES.NIGHT WITHOUT END.ICE STATION ZEBRA.Arctic fiction_novels.Books new,used,signed,rare.
- Catálogos del vendedor
- MODERN FIRSTS2;
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