HARPOON AT A VENTURE.
by Maxwell, Gavin
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- near Fine
- Seller
-
Deerfield, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Longmans, Green and Co., (1964). reprint. hardcover. near Fine. 12mo, blue pictorial cloth covers xi [1] 335 [1] pages. Includes six black and white illustrations by the author, and six maps by H. R. Harvey. Part of the Travel and Adventure section of the Heritage of Literature Series. Former owner bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Maxwell's account of the basking shark fishing business he and a partner set up near the Isle of Sky in the 1940s. 042407A
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000016840
- Title
- HARPOON AT A VENTURE.
- Author
- Maxwell, Gavin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- reprint
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1964)
- Keywords
- Scotland, Nature, Hebrides
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Alkahest Books
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Deerfield, Illinois
About Alkahest Books
Alkahest Books was established in1984. We started as an open shop on Central St. in Evanston, IL, and sold books there until 2002 and later were part of Chicago Rare Book Center which closed in 2017. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and IOBA and sell both online and at book fairs. International customers should ask for a shipping quote before ordering as the rates given are only for smaller books.
Glossary
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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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.