Dark Islands
by Vandercook, John W
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York/ London: Harper & Brothers, 1937. Pre-war travel through the Pacific, mainly Papua New Guinea, Fiji & the Solomons, with a stop in Honolulu. Stated first edition. Hardcover, full black cloth blocked in green, gilt titling. Ex-library, with large bookplate, couple of rubberstamps, ink number on copyright page. Light general wear; jacket spine faded, edgeworn with a few large (inch or so) chips. Text clean; [8], 367 pages + colophon; map frontispiece, 16 b/w photos.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Octavo. Ex-Library.
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Details
- Seller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- o0533
- Title
- Dark Islands
- Author
- Vandercook, John W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York/ London
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Travel, Hawai'i, Fiji, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Pacific Islands, Melanesia
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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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...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....