The Westward Crossings: Balboa, Mackenzie, Lewis and Clark
by Jeannette Mirsky
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Allan Wingate, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1951. First Published. 365 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Black and white illustrated plates. Light thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers; visible staining to front pastedown and free endpaper also. Light cracking to gutters but; some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with moderate sunning, staining and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier sunning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1697176017ADA
- Title
- The Westward Crossings: Balboa, Mackenzie, Lewis and Clark
- Author
- Jeannette Mirsky
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Allan Wingate
- Date Published
- 1951
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....