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The Heart of the Antarctic Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 by Shackleton, Sir Ernest
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 737
- Edition: New and revised "Popular" edition.
- Publisher: The Musson Book Company Limited,
- Place: Toronto:
- Date published: N.d.
- Pages: xv,368 pp.
Description
Toronto: : The Musson Book Company Limited, , N.d. . New and revised "Popular" edition. . 8vo, . Illustrated with plates and folding map at rear. blue and gilt pictorial cloth. Spine faded, name on ffep, map detached at rear but with no loss to image, else a very good copy. The great Antarctic exploration story.
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. Also known as the back.
gilt : Decorative patterns imbedded into the affected portion of a book. Often appears on the boards or the spine, and may be very simple, to elegant, to ludicrous.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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