Antarctica: Authentic Accounts of Life and Exploration in the Worlds Highest, Driest, Windiest, Coldest and Most Remote Continent
by Neider, Charles (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards soiled, jacket chipped and foxed.
- ISBN 10
- 0394468317
- ISBN 13
- 9780394468310
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards soiled, jacket chipped and . foxed.. 1972. First Printing. Hardcover. 0394468317 . Edited with an introduction and notes by Charles Neider. Light blue paper boards quarter-bound in black cloth. Endpaper map, black and white frontispiece photo, chronology, sources, and short author bio. A collection of writings by such noted explorers as James Cook, Ernest Shackleton, and Richard E. Byrd about their adventures in the polar regions. Signed by the previous owner, former NY Senator James L. Buckley on the front free endpaper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 464 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41082
- Title
- Antarctica: Authentic Accounts of Life and Exploration in the World’s Highest, Driest, Windiest, Coldest and Most Remote Continent
- Author
- Neider, Charles (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards soiled, jacket chipped and foxed.
- Edition
- First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0394468317
- ISBN 13
- 9780394468310
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- 0394468317
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Adventure;
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
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Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...