Ordeal By Ice
de Mowat, Farley
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Good
- Librería
-
Medford, Oregon, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
London: Michael Joseph, 1961. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Navy blue hardback with black print on spine. Corners of boards a bit bumped. 1 1/2" closed tear on ffep from top edge. Pages tight but book will lay open. Pages clean/unmarked. 327 pages. Light age browning to pages. DJ is off-white with green print. DJ is dirty; fading to spine; wrinkled; bumped along edges. DJ in mylar jacket. Bottom front DJ flap has been cut. Copyright page states: "Copyright 1960 by Farley Mowat. First published by Michael Joseph LTD, 1961." "Selected and Edited by Farley Mowat." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Sinopsis
Farley Mowat was born in Belleville, Ontario, in 1921, and grew up in Belleville, Trenton, Windsor, Saskatoon, Toronto, and Richmond Hill. He served in World War II from 1940 until 1945, entering the army as a private and emerging with the rank of captain. He began writing for his living in 1949 after spending two years in the Arctic. Since 1949 he has lived in or visited almost every part of Canada and many other lands, including the distant regions of Siberia. He remains an inveterate traveller with a passion for remote places and peoples. He has twenty-five books to his name, which have been published in translations in over twenty languages in more than sixty countries. They include such internationally known works as People of the Deer , The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be , Never Cry Wolf , Westviking , The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float , Sibir , A Whale for the Killing , The Snow Walker , And No Birds Sang , and Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey . His short stories and articles have appeared in The Saturday Evening Post , Maclean’s , Atlantic Monthly and other magazines.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Village Books and Music
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1409039
- Título
- Ordeal By Ice
- Autor
- Mowat, Farley
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition.
- Editorial
- Michael Joseph
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1961
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Anthologies---Fiction/NonFiction;
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Sobre el vendedor
Village Books and Music
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
Medford, Oregon
Sobre Village Books and Music
Independent bookstore in Southern Oregon selling used books of all ages. Over 60,000 in stock; only a fraction listed online. Large selection of Oregon history, signed First editions, collectible children's books.
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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...
- 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...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
