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ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS: The Second and Last UNITED STATES GRINNELL EXPEDITION in search of SIR JOHN FRANKLIN (1 vol edition)
by Kane, Elisha Kent f3a
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG book. Bliss logo blind stamped on rear board. Very nice book.
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Hartford: Bliss. VG book. Bliss logo blind stamped on rear board. Very nice book.. 1872 (1868cp).. Later 1 vol ed. Hardcover. VG book. Brown cloth. AEG. Gilt cover lettering, gilt vignette of small ship among icebergs. Tight. Very clean, in & out. . TP dated 1871, with 1868 cp date and the engraved tp dated 1872. This edition with all 244 illustrations of the original 1856 2 vol edition. PLUS: This, and only this, edition lists all these illustrations. The 1st edition did not. The numbering and titles of the plates are the same(with 1 exception) for both 2 vol & 1 vol editions. So the 1 vol plate index can be used to find each plate in the earlier 2 vol editions. This 1 vol edition WAS NOT published with the fold out chart, but LAID IN is the fold out chart from an 1857 printing. All text block edges gilt, with all 3 smooth and bright as new. Very nice text block. BUT: extreme bottom corner damp stained, 1/4" at most. AND: all plates offset to adjoining text page & with few lightly foxed spots. Cover edges & extrems sunned, bumped & worn. Inked gift note dated 1878. .
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- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002000
- Title
- ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS: The Second and Last UNITED STATES GRINNELL EXPEDITION in search of SIR JOHN FRANKLIN (1 vol edition)
- Author
- Kane, Elisha Kent f3a
- Illustrator
- Full page steel engravings.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG book. Bliss logo blind stamped on rear board. Very nice book.
- Edition
- Later 1 vol ed
- Publisher
- Bliss
- Place of Publication
- Hartford
- Date Published
- 1872 (1868cp).
- Keywords
- VG book. Brown cloth. AEG. Gilt cover lettering, gilt vignette of, small ship among icebergs. Tight. Very clean, in & out.
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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