Four Years in the White North
by Donald B. Macmillan
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. very good. Octavo. *8 1/2" x 6") Red cloth. Sunning to spine. 426pp. Sixty-six illustrations and three maps - one doublepage.Bookplate of previous owner on front pastedown. From the library of Robert Lloyd Lillestrand with his bookplate.
Lillestrand was an authority on celestial navigation, a process crucial to determining one's position on the drifting polar ice pack. He had published numerous papers on the technical points of navigation and on polar exploration, has co-led expeditions to the pole twice and has assisted in polar expeditions.
Lillestrand was an authority on celestial navigation, a process crucial to determining one's position on the drifting polar ice pack. He had published numerous papers on the technical points of navigation and on polar exploration, has co-led expeditions to the pole twice and has assisted in polar expeditions.
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- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57076
- Title
- Four Years in the White North
- Author
- Donald B. Macmillan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1918
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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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...