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Hunters Of The Great North -- 1922 SIGNED FIRST USA EDITION
by Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 1911 FIRST UK Edition. Original purple cloth, white lettering front and spine, white decoration of polar bear front cover. The book is in better than average condition with very clean covers, no fading, bright lettering with no chipping, solid binding, some browning to EPs but no foxing on pages, interesting long inscription penned by Stefansson on blank FFEP, signed by Stefansson on title page, otherwise no previous owner marks or writing on any pages. The original dust jacket browning to lower half of spine, loss at spine corners up to 1cm deep, original printed price still present on front flap. The book measures . The book measures 298mm tall x 143mm, and has 301 pages, 26 b/w photos, two folding maps (in fine condtion). PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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- Bookseller
- JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003118
- Title
- Hunters Of The Great North -- 1922 SIGNED FIRST USA EDITION
- Author
- Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- polar, north pole, arctic, greenland, eskimos, Borden Island, Yukon, Franklin Bay, alaska, Mackenzie bay, arctic ocean, inuit
- Bookseller catalogs
- Polar;
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- Title Page
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Chipping
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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