Feats on the Fjord
by Martineau, Harriet
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. An unusual work by Martineau, known for her work as an historian and sociologist, this is a Young Adult tale set in Norway. This is a Near Fine copy of a particularly lovely edition (First Edition Thus) that is not common. Illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff. Decorative blue cloth binding, stamped in dark blue and gilt. Clean text; 301 pages. small bookseller label on the rear paste-down. Lightly bumped; and with a small spot on the lower part of the spine.. First Thus. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Boris Artzybasheff. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004361
- Title
- Feats on the Fjord
- Author
- Martineau, Harriet
- Illustrator
- Boris Artzybasheff
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...