Amid Greenland Snows or the Early History of Arctic Missions
by Page, Jesse
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: S. W. Partridge & Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. Second Edition. Hardcover. "Second Edition. Tenth Thousand. " 160 pages + frontis + in-text illustrations and map + 28 pages advertisments. Brown cloth covers with gilt and black lettering and decoration on spine and front board. Front free endpaper and half-title page missing. Cloth coveros clean. Some rubbing to edges of spine and boards. Contents: The Frozen Field and its History; A Cry from Macedon; Disappointments and Deliverance; Almost Abandoned; Sunshine and Shadow; The Moravians Come; Pestilence and Patience; How the Greenlanders Live; Their Religious Ideas and Superstitions; The Story of KAjarnak; God's Work Goes On.; 12mo .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002294
- Title
- Amid Greenland Snows or the Early History of Arctic Missions
- Author
- Page, Jesse
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- S. W. Partridge & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....