The Romance of Exploration: How Man Has Opened Up His World
by Sundheim, Karl
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Hillman-Curl, Inc.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1935. First. Hardcover. Blue cloth hardback. Contains numerous black and white illustrations, charts and Index. Light soil to edges. Light overall tanning. No marks. Binding is tight with light rounding of corners. Spine is sunned but lettering still readable. Quarter inch tear to lower edge of spine. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 568 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book Lady (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 736
- Title
- The Romance of Exploration: How Man Has Opened Up His World
- Author
- Sundheim, Karl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Hillman-Curl, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- History, Geography
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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About the Seller
The Book Lady
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Lawrence, Kansas
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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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...