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By Dog Sled For Byrd: 1600 Miles Across Antarctic Ice
by O'Brien, John S
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Thomas S Rockwell Company, 1931. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Third printing of First Edition, 1931. blue cloth, silver lettering cover & spine, splotch marks front cover, frayed spine end, solid binding, World's Fair commemorative stamp "Byrd's South Pole Ship" upper corner of FFEP, no writing on pages, soiling (brown spot) on facing pages of author portrait plate (not in image or in text). 235mm tall x 15cm, 192 pages, 19 b/w photos. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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- Bookseller
- JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001319
- Title
- By Dog Sled For Byrd: 1600 Miles Across Antarctic Ice
- Author
- O'Brien, John S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 3rd Printing
- Publisher
- Thomas S Rockwell Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- polar, south pole, antarctic, antarctica, polar travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Polar;
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