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Athabasca
by Alistair MacLean
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385172044
- ISBN 13
- 9780385172042
- Seller
-
Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
First edition hardcover with dust jacket, published by Doubleday, 1980. This is the first American hardcover edition. The dust jacket has been protected with a clear, removable, library quality cover. Jacket is not price clipped, no tears, no chips, no edge wear to the jacket. 326 pages, red boards over black spine with the title and author name in gold on the spine. All lettering on the spine is intact and not rubbed or worn. Boards are flat and the corners are not bumped or creased, no edge wear to the boards. Binding is tight and square. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text. There are only a few foxing dots to the bottom edge of the text block. An excellent copy of this exciting thriller from MacLean about a plot to sabotage oil fields in Alaska. Beautiful map on the front and back pastedown-ffep. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.
Synopsis
The nail-biting tale of sabotage set in the desolate frozen wastes of two ice-bound oil fields, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20-659
- Title
- Athabasca
- Author
- Alistair MacLean
- Illustrator
- Paul Bacon
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385172044
- ISBN 13
- 9780385172042
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Alaska, oil fields, thriller,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Thriller;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
Biblio member since 2015
Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
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- 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....
- Price Clipped
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- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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