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Journey to the World's End
by Hakon Mielche
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Edinburgh: William Hodge and Company, Limited, 1943. 2nd Impression . Very Good/Good. 6.25 x 8.75 inches (16 x 22.5 cm). Dust jacket: Wear and loss to edges, browning and rubbing to spine. Foxing to rear cover. Price clipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Good. Book: Blue cloth binding with slight lean. Browning and light to page edges, clean text throughout. Account of an expedition to Tierra del Fuego by Danish journalist Hakon Mielche. The chapter on the genocide of the Ona people is racist in the extreme. Overall book condition is Very Good. Size: 6.25 x 8.75 inches (16 x 22.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. 297
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tarrington Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1223E154
- Title
- Journey to the World's End
- Author
- Hakon Mielche
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Impression
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Hodge and Company, Limited
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1943
- Size
- 6.25 x 8.75 inches (16 x 22.5 cm
- Keywords
- Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, Chile, Argentina, Travel_Exploration/South_America
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel: Americas;
Terms of Sale
Tarrington Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Tarrington Books
Biblio member since 2015
Tarrington, Herefordshire
About Tarrington Books
A family run bookshop located in the heart of rural Herefordshire. Large selection of children's literature, crime fiction, military, history, travel, vintage paperbacks, quality antiquarian volumes & fine bindings. We offer free UK postage on all items and pride ourselves on our safe packaging and rapid dispatch of orders. Browsers welcome by appointment.
Glossary
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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