The Last Place on Earth: The Complete Story of the Dramatic Race for the Pole
by HUNTFORD, ROLAND
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
Book Club / Hodder & Stoughton 1985. Super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xxi + 665pp, illus, VG (heavy staining to front page edges, v slight bruising to spine extrems, small stain spot to rear eps) in d/w, VG (damp-staining to lower edges, esp internally, bruising & creasing to edges, particularly upper front edge, sellotape repair to front upper corner/flap fold, several pin-prick holes to rear)
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- Seller
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- Title
- The Last Place on Earth: The Complete Story of the Dramatic Race for the Pole
- Author
- HUNTFORD, ROLAND
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Book Club / Hodder & Stoughton 1985
- Keywords
- Roland Huntford Robert Falcon Scott Roald Amundsen biography South Pole history
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- Edges
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- VG
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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