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Brazilian Adventure
de Peter Fleming
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good/Good
- Librería
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
World Books, 1940. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1940. New Edition. 376 pages. Dust jacket over grey cloth. Pages are moderately tanned to endpapers with mild foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable foxing to spine. Moderate tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Mild foxing to surfaces. Heavy tanning to spine. Light rubbing and marking all over.
Sinopsis
Brazilian Adventure is a book by Peter Fleming about his search for the lost Colonel Percy Fawcett in the Brazilian jungle. Fawcett along with his son and another companion had disappeared while searching for the Lost City of Z in 1925. Fleming was working as literary editor for The Times when he answered a small ad asking for volunteers to join an expedition to find out what had happened to Fawcett. The story of Fleming's 1932 expedition is told in Brazilian Adventure.
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Detalles
- Librería
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1701775453CTS
- Título
- Brazilian Adventure
- Autor
- Peter Fleming
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good/Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- World Books
- Fecha de publicación
- 1940
Términos de venta
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
