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The Blue Nile
de Moorehead, Alan
- Usado
- Bueno
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Bueno/Very Good+
- Librería
-
La Mesa, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
London, England: Harper & Row, 1962. Book Club Edition (BCE) . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. In this companion volume to "The White Nile,' Moorehead traces the course of the Nile & its exploration from the 18th century through 1869, focusing on the roles of four men: James Bruce from Scotland, Napoleon from France, Muhammad Ali from Turkey, & Ethiopian Emperor Theodore. In 308 pages with 18 chapter decorations, 26 pages of black-and-white photos, maps, including one foldout one, & map endpapers. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1962, this hardcover 8vo has soft blue cloth-covered boards & gilt publisher's stamp to front/lettering to spine. Condition is Near Fine: completely clean, binding tight & square, pages off-white with just a tad or tanning to edges, completely unmarked save for former owner's name & address to ffep. Very mild rubbing to extremities & corner bumping. The price-clipped DJ is VG+, with very mild rubbing & light soil; nicely protected in clear mylar cover by original owner. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Sinopsis
Hailed as "utterly absorbing, (as) sweeping as the mighty river itself" ("Washington Post"), the second volume in this two-book series expands the story of the dangerous search for the source of the Nile River.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 023493
- Título
- The Blue Nile
- Autor
- Moorehead, Alan
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good+
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Book Club Edition (BCE)
- Editorial
- Harper & Row
- Lugar de publicación
- London, England
- Fecha de publicación
- 1962
- Palabras clave
- Africa Nile rivers Ethiopia exploration explorers eighteenth nineteenth century adventure travel African
- Catálogos del vendedor
- History; Travel-Exploration-Adventure;
Términos de venta
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Gargoyle Books
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La Mesa, California
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
