Year With Three Summers
de Mackworth-Praed, Ben & Mike Andrews
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fair in Fair dust jacket
- Librería
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
London: Cassell. Fair in Fair dust jacket. (1964). First Edition. Hardcover. An ex-library copy. Library stamps and markings. Lacking the front free endpaper and half-title page. Hinges taped. Edges of boards rubbed and worn. Adhesive tape stains to boards and endpapers. Dust-jacket flaps cropped, without loss of text but very close to the text. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; (iii)-xiii, [1], 257 pages + 26 illustrations on 8 plate leaves. 5 small maps (within the pagination). Blue papered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 210 x 139mm. An account of the Cambridge Trans-American Expedition, the first expedition to drive the length of the Americas. 40,000 miles over 17 countries. "A hot, wet, 200-mile walk through the roadless Darien isthmus took the party as far as dinner at the Panama Hilton [. . .]" - from dust-jacket blurb. .
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Detalles
- Librería
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 18355
- Título
- Year With Three Summers
- Autor
- Mackworth-Praed, Ben & Mike Andrews
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fair in Fair dust jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Cassell
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- (1964)
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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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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...
