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THE LONELIEST CONTINENT: The Story of Antarctic Discovery
de Chapman, Walker
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good+
- Librería
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Korumburra, Victoria, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.A.: New York Graphic Society Publishers, Ltd. , 1964. 279pp. Unpaginated, b/white halftone plate section, with a line-drawn, double-page spread map within the section. Book clean and square. Vivid silver title over lightly bumped spine. Plain blue cloth boards nominally bumped and flecked. A former owner's name on front pastedown, else endpapers and textblock edges lightly foxed. Illustrated dustjacket mildly edgeworn, chipped and marked. This book tells the story of the discovery of Antarctica: the heroic probing by perservering men of many nationalities into the forbidding ice-bound vastness of the last unknown continent (read 1964). Contents include: Prelims., 14 chapters. Bibliography. Index. Book weight approx. 515g. . First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good+. 8vo - (approx. 20.5cm x 14cm).
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Detalles
- Librería
- Diversity Books, IOBA
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 014299
- Título
- THE LONELIEST CONTINENT: The Story of Antarctic Discovery
- Autor
- Chapman, Walker
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good+
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- New York Graphic Society Publishers, Ltd.
- Lugar de publicación
- Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación
- 1964
- Tamaño
- 8vo - (approx. 20.5cm x 14cm)
- Palabras clave
- History, Antarctica, History By Continent, Walker Chapman
Términos de venta
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Diversity Books, IOBA
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- First Edition
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- Good+
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- Spine
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- Foxed
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- Plate
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