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The Conquest of the Arctic,
de Segal, Louis
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Librería
-
Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
London: G. G. Harrap & Company, Ltd. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1939. 1st. Hardcover. The book has been rebound in red cloth covered boards with gilt titles on spine, tape stains on end papers, unobtrusive library markings, library pocket and cncellation stamp on back end paper ; A bright, solid book, B&W plates throughout. Appears not to have been read very much ; Ex-Library; 285 pages; Segal attempts to give a history of the attempts of various explorers to discover the Artic in its various aspects, its passages, its flora and fauna, its peoples. These explorers, many of whom gave their lives, traveled by sea, by air, and overland. Many places are named in honour of these men. In an appendix at the end is a chronological list of the explorers, their nationality, the location of their exploration and the year, ending in 1918. .
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Detalles
- Librería
- Ainsworth Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 16906
- Título
- The Conquest of the Arctic,
- Autor
- Segal, Louis
- Ilustrador
- B&W Plates
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edición
- 1st
- Editorial
- G. G. Harrap & Company, Ltd
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1939
- Palabras clave
- Arctic, nansen, vitus bering, Exploration
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Sobre el vendedor
Ainsworth Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
Sobre Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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....
