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Antarctic Adventure
by Sir Vivian Fuchs / Stuart Tresilian (Illust.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Very Good
- Seller
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Cassell, 1959. 1st Edition . Very Good Plus/Very Good. 5.75 x 8.5 inches (14.5 x 21.5 cm). Dust jacket: Excellent original jacket. Very slight wear to head of spine. A few small patches of light rubbing. Price clipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good Plus. Book: First printing. Blue cloth binding. Light foxing to page edges, very clean text throughout. Overall book condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 5.75 x 8.5 inches (14.5 x 21.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 190
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tarrington Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1216E056
- Title
- Antarctic Adventure
- Author
- Sir Vivian Fuchs / Stuart Tresilian (Illust.)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Size
- 5.75 x 8.5 inches (14.5 x 21.5 c
- Keywords
- Antarctic, Antarctica, Travel_Exploration/Arctic_Antarctic
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel: Arctic & Antarctic;
Terms of Sale
Tarrington Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Tarrington Books
Biblio member since 2015
Tarrington, Herefordshire
About Tarrington Books
A family run bookshop located in the heart of rural Herefordshire. Large selection of children's literature, crime fiction, military, history, travel, vintage paperbacks, quality antiquarian volumes & fine bindings. We offer free UK postage on all items and pride ourselves on our safe packaging and rapid dispatch of orders. Browsers welcome by appointment.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
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