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ESKIMO DOCTOR
by Gilberg, Aage
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/Fair
- Seller
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Llandudno, Conwy, United Kingdom
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About This Item
George Allen and Unwin Ltd, London, 1948. First Edition. Cloth. Good Condition/Fair. 1st Edition; Translated by Karin Elliott, 149pages, 3pages publishers advertisements, illustrated, end paper maps, frontispiece plus 46 b/w photographs. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling to spine in pictorial unclipped dust jacket. Biography of this Danish physician who went "to live with an isolated group of Polar Eskimos in Thule, Greenland, the northernmost human settlement in the world." Shelfware, dust jacket tatty, pieces missing, covers sunned where dust jacket missing, contents clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2123. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Polar Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2123
- Title
- ESKIMO DOCTOR
- Author
- Gilberg, Aage
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Allen and Unwin Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- BZDB349 qpolarq polar books antarctic book arctic book Artic/Arctic, Antartic/Antarctic Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Gilberg, Aage ESKIMO DOCTOR.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration;
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About the Seller
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Llandudno, Conwy
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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...
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
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