London: Adam and Charles Black. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1947. Second Revised Edition. Hardcover. Maroon cloth cover is clean and unworn. Corners sharp an binding sound. There is a 1/2 inch line in red pen on the ffep along with an erased old price. No other marks in book. Not ex-library. DJ has wear at head of spine and a few short tears. Not price clipped. Now in mylar archival sleeve. With eight maps and 22 illustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 268 pages .

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Bookseller: James F. Balsley, Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 16871
Title: Polar Exploration
Author: Croft, Andrew
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Edition: Second Revised Edition
Publisher: Adam and Charles Black
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1947
Keywords: Arctic exploration, Antarctic exploration
Bookseller catalogs: Exploration;

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James F. Balsley, Bookseller

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James F. Balsley, Bookseller

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My business is strictly on-line sales. I carry an inventory of about 2000 books. About half of these are modern fiction. Most of the rest are scholarly academic books concentrated in the areas of natural science, philosophy, history, and literature.

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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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...