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Follow the Whale
by Sanderson, Ivan T
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/VG-
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/VG-. Historical account of the humankind's pursuit of the whale across different epochs & civilizations from early Icelanders through the dawn of the New England whaling industry. In 423 pages, with map endpapers, illustrated with maps, charts, & pen-and-ink sketches by the author throughout. A First Edition, first printing from 1956, this hardcover book has deep blue cloth-covered boards with silver lettering & design to spine. Condition is VG+: very clean, binding tight & square, hinges secure. Old Boston bookstore stamp in front matter; modest rubbing to extremities, tape discoloration to endpapers, light soil, bumped corners, page tanning. The price-clipped DJ is VG-, with fading to spine & chipping at all corners, else bright & clean; nicely protected in new mylar cover Free! Please see our photos--they show the Exact book you will receive from us, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have on hand! Description & photos property of Gargoyle Books. Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); Weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Our photos show the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2pm weekdays Pacific time (PST); later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019479
- Title
- Follow the Whale
- Author
- Sanderson, Ivan T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- VG-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- SPERM WHALE WHALING FISHING NEW ENGLAND BOATS SHIPS WHALERS OCEANS HUNTING FISHERMEN MAPS HISTORY HISTORICAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature/Gardening/Environmentalism; Animals-Birds-Horses-Pets; Business/Occupations & Professions/Organizational Studies;
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La Mesa, California
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
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- New
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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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