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Fridtiof Nansen 1861 - 1893
by W C Brogger and Nordahl Rolsen, Translated by William Archer
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Doncaster, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Longmans Green and Co, London; New York; Bombay, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean dark blue covers with illustration and title in silver on the front cover and silver lettering and design of stars on the spine. Wear in cloth over both ends of the rear joint, small worn areas over front joint and cloth has lifted for a small area on the front. Paper over front hinge is split in places but covers are securely attached. Uncut (untrimmed) pages at upper and vertical block and block edges are a little darkened. Text block binding is sound. Significant foxing to prelims and lightly and occasionally elsewhere, pages are otherwise clean. Includes, as required, three colour fold-out maps and eight black and white plates and also vignette illustrations. No dust-jacket. Prize plate at front. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 61121091015. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service.. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations..
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- Bookseller
- Bailgate Books Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61121091015
- Title
- Fridtiof Nansen 1861 - 1893
- Author
- W C Brogger and Nordahl Rolsen, Translated by William Archer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans Green and Co
- Place of Publication
- London; New York; Bombay
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- BZDB4 Arctic & Antarctic; Biography; Scandinavia. W C Brogger and Nordahl Rolsen, Translated by William Archer Fridtiof Nansen 1861 - 1893
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Scandinavia; Arctic & Antarctic;
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About the Seller
Bailgate Books Ltd
Biblio member since 2010
Doncaster, Aberdeen
About Bailgate Books Ltd
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- First Edition
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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