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THE LONELIEST CONTINENT: The Story of Antarctic Discovery
by Chapman, Walker
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Korumburra, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.A.: New York Graphic Society Publishers, Ltd. , 1964. 279pp. Unpaginated, b/white halftone plate section, with a line-drawn, double-page spread map within the section. Book clean and square. Vivid silver title over lightly bumped spine. Plain blue cloth boards nominally bumped and flecked. A former owner's name on front pastedown, else endpapers and textblock edges lightly foxed. Illustrated dustjacket mildly edgeworn, chipped and marked. This book tells the story of the discovery of Antarctica: the heroic probing by perservering men of many nationalities into the forbidding ice-bound vastness of the last unknown continent (read 1964). Contents include: Prelims., 14 chapters. Bibliography. Index. Book weight approx. 515g. . First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good+. 8vo - (approx. 20.5cm x 14cm).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Diversity Books, IOBA
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014299
- Title
- THE LONELIEST CONTINENT: The Story of Antarctic Discovery
- Author
- Chapman, Walker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- New York Graphic Society Publishers, Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1964
- Size
- 8vo - (approx. 20.5cm x 14cm)
- Keywords
- History, Antarctica, History By Continent, Walker Chapman
Terms of Sale
Diversity Books, IOBA
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About the Seller
Diversity Books, IOBA
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Korumburra, Victoria
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- Edges
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- Foxed
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