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The Home of the Blizzard
de Mawson, Douglas (Sir)
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Librería
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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Sobre este artículo
London: Hodder and Stoughton. Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. (1938). Hardcover. Previous owner's name and address. Quite heavy foxing to page edges. A 20mm tear and 5mm chips at ends of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; Series: Black Jacket Books. "This, the sixth edition of "The Home of The Blizzard," is the first edition in this form". xix, [1], 21-348 pages. 10 maps and plans within the pagination (3 double page, 6 full page, 1 a small in-text illustration.) Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 176 x 111mm. Contents: Preface; Introduction; Plan and Preparation; The Voyage to Macquarie Island; From Macquarie Island to Adelie Land; New Lands; First Days in Adelie Land; Autumn Prospects; The Blizzard; Troglodytes; Domestic Life; Winter Activities; Spring Exploits; Across King George Land; Toil and Tribulation; Alone; Southward over the Plateau; Eastward over the Sea-Ice; Across Adelie Land - to East and West; The Ship's Story; A Home on Floating Ice; Winter and Spring in Queen Mary Land; Blocked on the Shelf-Ice; Linking up with Kaiser Wilhelm Land; The Second Year; The Homeward Cruise; Glossary; Index. .
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Detalles
- Librería
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 25697
- Título
- The Home of the Blizzard
- Autor
- Mawson, Douglas (Sir)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Editorial
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- (1938)
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Renaissance Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
Sobre Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
