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Ferdinand Magellan (The Golden Hind Series)
by E.F. Benson
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/missing
- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/missing. A very good first edition, as stated. No dust jacket. Dust jacket image of ship has been glued onto half-title. Blue cloth boards with blind stamped ship on cover, bright gilt title stamping on spine. Binding slightly cocked but otherwise sturdy, and strong. Painted top edge. New endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Deckled pages. a couple of unopened pages. 262 pp. including index. Octavo, 6 x 9 inches tall. The Golden Hind Series was initially co-published by John Lane in the UK and Harper’s in the U.S. The first titles were issued in 1927. According to a prospectus for the series (quoted in Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia, edited by Jennifer Speake) “the volumes were presented as ‘in a form suitable for the general reader new lives of great explorers written by well-known men of letters which are at the same time reliable history and attractive biographies.’ Each author was allowed to present his subject in the manner he wanted, so long as he examined all available material, especially the documents left by the explorer and his contemporaries.” -- A Series of Series
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- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1002
- Title
- Ferdinand Magellan (The Golden Hind Series)
- Author
- E.F. Benson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- missing
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- discovery, exploration, new world
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- 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....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 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...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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