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In the Strange South Seas
by Grimshaw, Beatrice
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- Hardcover
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1908. x, 381 pp. First American edition. Octavo. Original blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering on the spine. Gilt emblem on the cover. All edges trimmed; top edge gilt. Previous owner's stamps and bookplate on the half title. Fifty-six halftone illustrations on art paper, principally from the author's photographs, of Tahiti, Samoa, New Zealand and Rotorua. "I am a Victorian," Beatrice Grimshaw once wrote. "I was governessed and schooled and colleged. I was taught to ride and play games. I was taught to behave. To write notes for Mamma. To do the flowers. To be polite but not too polite, to Young Gentlemen. To accept flowers, sweets and books from them, but no more." But the Victorian writer, photographer and journalist was to become a world wide traveller. This volume documents a trip to the South Seas, beginning in 1904. It is also liberally embellished with black and white photographs taken by Grimshaw. 1908
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 143839
- Title
- In the Strange South Seas
- Author
- Grimshaw, Beatrice
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1908
- Keywords
- Voyages|Tahiti|Women|Explorers|Memoir
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Aquila Books
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About Aquila Books
Aquila Books specializes in books dealing with Polar Exploration, Western Canadiana, Mountaineering, the Canadian Pacific Railway, Early Voyages as well as many other areas. We also deal in antique maps and prints, historic photos, autograph letters, postcards, antique scientific instruments and antique bookcases. Please contact us if you have any questions.
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Half Title
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- Spine
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- New
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Edges
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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