Pittsburgh: Beta Phi Mu. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. 5,500 copies were printed at the Lakeside Press. Original brown cloth covers with gilt spine and cover lettering. Includes footnotes and an index in the rear. There is a very faint stray mark to cover, else this is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book. No dust jacket, as issued.; Chapbook #10 Series; Frontis portrait, 3 maps; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 80 pages .

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Bookseller: Peninsula Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 3129
Title: The Three Voyages of Captain Cook
Author: Paluka, Frank
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Beta Phi Mu
Place of Publication: Pittsburgh
Date Published: 1974
Keywords: Polar, Antarctica, Pacific

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Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...

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