The Call Of The North -- FIRST EDITION 1932
by H. H. Houben
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1932. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. FIRST PRINTING of First Edition 1932. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering spine. Original dust jacket is present. The book has very clean covers, no rubbing, slight sunning spine, solid binding, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing, solid binding. The dust jacket has small loss at top of spine, two clean 2cm tears front panel, original price present on front flap corner. The book measures 221mm tall x 154mm and has 348 pages + [26], 24 b/w portrait illustrations/photos, single-page map. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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Details
- Bookseller
- JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002614
- Title
- The Call Of The North -- FIRST EDITION 1932
- Author
- H. H. Houben
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Elkin Mathews & Marrot
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- polar, north pole, arctic, greenland, eskimos
- Bookseller catalogs
- Alaska; Polar;
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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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
- 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...