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Baikal Sacred Sea of Siberia
by Matthiessen, Peter
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1992. First Edition. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. An oblong octavo of 8 3/8 by 9 1/2 inches. In a fine dust, unclipped (no price) jacket. Signed on a small book plate by the author and tipped in at the second free end page. 89 pages of text and full color photographic plates. Essay by Peter Matthiessen and illustrated with a map and 50 color photographs by Boyd Norton and edited by Chez Liley. A handsome, clean and tight volume with no prior ownership marks or notations.
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB29596
- Title
- Baikal Sacred Sea of Siberia
- Author
- Matthiessen, Peter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Douglas & McIntyre
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver/Toronto
- Date Published
- 1992
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
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Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
We purchase and sell only collectible first editions in a number of fields all focused on Americana. We are primarily mail order sellers; however, we are open by appointment and welcome visits from customers.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tipped In
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Fine
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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