Quest for a Continent
by Sullivan, Walter
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Traverse City, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Mcgraw-Hill. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. The story of antarctic exploration. Contains end paper maps and an index. Small quarter size stain to lower part of front free half title page, previous owner name on the front end paper, shelf wear to the extremities, else a clean, tight and unmarked book. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 372 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peninsula Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2209
- Title
- Quest for a Continent
- Author
- Sullivan, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Mcgraw-Hill
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Polar
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peninsula Books
Biblio member since 2023
Traverse City, Michigan
About Peninsula Books
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.