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Greenland
by Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. 8vo. Pp. viii, 338, frontis map, b/w ills. Green cloth with black and silver lettered spine. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped, map endapers, clean throughout and the binding tight and square. Dust jacket price clipped, with light bumping and creasing to the corners and spine ends, rear cover with a few small stains and a small stain to the front cover. From the library of nationally renowned collector of rare books and manuscripts Dr. Otto Orren Fisher, with his bookplate to the verso of the front endpaper, with an inscription from the author, "For Dr. Otto O Fisher on learning from his daughter that he might be interested in the story of Greenland as it looks to Vilhjalmur Stefansson, December 16, 1946.
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- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45214
- Title
- Greenland
- Author
- Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1944
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
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
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
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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"...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
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