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Here is Alaska by STEFANSSON, Evelyn
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New York: Charles Scribners' Sons. (1942). First. First edition. Quarto. Pictorial papercovered boards. Foreword by Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Photographs by Frederick Machetanz and others. Modest chip at the crown, else near fine in very good plus dustwrapper with a corresponding chip at the crown and other light wear. Curiously, and presumably as a wartime paper-saving measure, the jacket was printed on the reverse of dustwrappers for Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' novel <i>Cross Creek</i>. An attractive look at Alaska by the wife of a noted Arctic explorer. .
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
dustwrapper : Another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
quarto : A term used generally to describe the approximate size of a book, a book that is about 10" to 12" tall and roughly squarish in shape. The term is based on the size of paper traditionally used by book printers which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.
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