Thirty Years in the Golden North
de Jan Welzl
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Bien/Fair
- Librería
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1932 The Macmillan Company, New York. 1932. Hardcover. First Edition (Copyright 1932, stated Published July 1932 as first printing) Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for former owner name on front pastedown dated 1932. Book Condition: Good; slightly sunfaded spine; light wear to board bottoms and tail from shelving. DJ: Fair; NOT price clipped; sunfaded spine cover; chipping and missing small pieces along top rear edge and spine cover top. Green cloth boards with bright gilt lettering and banding on spine and title in gilt on front board. Tinted textblock top. Fold-out map in place. 336 pp 8vo. The author, a Czech by birth, decided to seek his fortune in the Far North, traveled by wagon across the wilds of Siberia, then on a whaling ship up to the Arctic Circle. He tells of his journey, and of how he became a successful trader, with his HQ in a commodious cave on the rocky coast of New Siberia, and island in the Arctic Ocean where he lived for over thirty years. A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 004855
- Título
- Thirty Years in the Golden North
- Autor
- Jan Welzl
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fair
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Editorial
- The Macmillan Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1932
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Palabras clave
- Arctic Ocean, Arctic circle, Fur Trader, Eskimos, Far North, New Siberia, explorer, arctic explorer, Siberia
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Autobiography;
Términos de venta
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WINFIELD, Kansas
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- 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....
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
