With Scott: The Silver Lining. With Nearly 200 Illustrations and Maps. FIRST EDITION.
by TAYLOR, Griffith
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1916. Smith, Elder & Co. London. 1916. First edition, first issue with Publisher's blind stamp "PRESENTATION COPY" to prelims. Original sea-green cloth gilt with father penguin and chick illustration to front cover. Edges of boards rubbed and slightly worn. All plates and maps present including large coloured folding map at rear. Pages foxed especially to prelims and some margins. Generally a clean and sound copy of a scarce first hand account by one of Scott's colleagues. Taylor was the senior geologist of the team.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Addyman Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88617
- Title
- With Scott: The Silver Lining. With Nearly 200 Illustrations and Maps. FIRST EDITION.
- Author
- TAYLOR, Griffith
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1916
- Keywords
- TRAVEL and TOPOGRAPHY antarctica scott
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Addyman Books
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire
About Addyman Books
Addyman Books is based in Hay-on-Wye, the book capital of the world, with almost 30 bookshops in the town, nestled in the Black Mountains of Wales. We have been established since 1986 and have three shops, Addyman Books, Addyman Annexe and Murder & Mayhem. Large general stock. Murder & Mayhem specialises in Detective Fiction, True Crime and Horror.
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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...
- First Edition
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- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...