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Shackleton: How The Captain Of The Newly Discovered Endurance Saved His Crew In The Antarctic
by Ranulph Fiennes
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Michael Joseph, 2021. Hardcover. Good/Good. 2021. First Published. 404 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white and colour photographic plates. Flatsigned by author to signature page. Pages and plates are bright and clear with light staining and tanning to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing to edges. Some minor tanning, creasing and scuffing overall.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1692690616ADA
- Title
- Shackleton: How The Captain Of The Newly Discovered Endurance Saved His Crew In The Antarctic
- Author
- Ranulph Fiennes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Date Published
- 2021
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Flatsigned
- A flatsigned book is signed, and not inscribed, directly on a page of the book, rather than on a bookplate or with an...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- 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...
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