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The Loneliest Continent
by Walker Chapman
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Item Price
£20.24£17.20
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About This Item
Hardcover first edition, published by The New York Geographic Society, 1964. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped, it has been protected with a clear, removable, library quality cover. There is one crease on the back flap, a diagonal crease on the top left corner of the back flap. 279 pages win Index, Bibliography, a section of maps, and several maps. Blue cloth covered boards with the title and author's name imprinted in silver on the spine. All lettering on the spine is crisp and not rubber. The boards are flat and the corners are not bumped. Some minor edge wear to the heel and head of the spine, The edges of the text are clean, and there are no former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. This is the story of Antarctic exploration, from the earliest theories of Greek geographers to the sealers and whalers of the 18th century, and the expeditions of Byrd, Mawson, Scott, and Ellsworth. We have several more titles on the subject of exploration too.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20-415
- Title
- The Loneliest Continent
- Author
- Walker Chapman
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York Geographic Society
- Date Published
- 1964
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Exploration;
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
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Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
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- Price Clipped
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
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