Sable Island: The Strange Origins and Curious History of a Dune Adrift in the Atlantic
by Marq De Villiers; Sheila Hirtle
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0802714323
- ISBN 13
- 9780802714329
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
First edition hardcover with dust jacket, published by Walker, 2004. The unusual geography and history of Sable Island, the thirty mile long uninhabited island off the coast of Nova Scotia. 268 pages with Index, Bibliography, and Notes. This is not a remainder, not a library discard. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped, there is only a couple of squiggly impression marks on the back of the jacket, not writing, just impression marks. The edges of the text block are clean. The binding is tight and square. The attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.
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- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21-835
- Title
- Sable Island
- Author
- Marq De Villiers; Sheila Hirtle
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0802714323
- ISBN 13
- 9780802714329
- Publisher
- Walker & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- October 1, 2004
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
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