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Discovery: The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition
de BYRD, Richard Evelyn (text); SWANSON, Claude A. (introduction)
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); blue cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; map endpapers; dustjacket; xxi,[3],405pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, 23 leaves of plates, map endpapers by James Darley. Slight forward lean, lower corners bumped, top edge foxed; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.75), spine-sunned, showing moderate shelfwear, with numerous nicks, tears, and attendant creases; Very Good. Generously illustrated account of the second Byrd expedition, 1933-1935.
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- Librería
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 61633
- Título
- Discovery: The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition
- Autor
- BYRD, Richard Evelyn (text); SWANSON, Claude A. (introduction)
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1935
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
