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Wilderness - The Discovery of A Continent of Wonder
by Platt, Rutherford
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd Mead, 1961. Book. Illus. by Frank Ellis, Illustrator. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Dodd Mead, 1961. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Near FIne. Frank Ellis, Illustrator. First Edition, First Printing, in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Clean green cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Illustrations by Frank Ellis. 310 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Author's photo on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024304
- Title
- Wilderness - The Discovery of A Continent of Wonder
- Author
- Platt, Rutherford
- Illustrator
- Frank Ellis, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Dodd Mead
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- HISTORY, EXPLORATION, DISCOVERY OF AMERICA, FIRST EDITION, RUTHERFORD PLATT
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Price Clipped
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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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