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South from the Spanish Main: South America Seen Through the Eyes of its Discoverers (The Great Explorers Series)
by HANSON, Earl Parker (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Delacorte Press. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. Editor Earl Parker Hanson has compiled excerpts from accounts left by various explorers of South America, from Christopher Columbus to Charles Darwin. The accounts were edited by Hanson, with his annotations and his introduction. Includes numerous maps by Adrienne Palmer. An entry in publisher's Great Explorers Series. --- In full turquoise cloth-covered boards with navigation-themed illustration in blue to cover, spine titling & decorations in gilt on blue spine blocks. --- With penciled price to front free endpaper, else an unmarked, tightly-bound, sound copy. Unclipped jacket ($8.95) with small tears to edges, mildly sunned spine and a bit of soiling, else intact and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested for shipments beyond the U.S.) ; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xv, 463 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88525
- Title
- South from the Spanish Main: South America Seen Through the Eyes of its Discoverers (The Great Explorers Series)
- Author
- HANSON, Earl Parker (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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