Life and Adventure in the South Pacific
by A Roving Printer [John D. Jones]
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Ely, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1861. Hardcover. Very Good. x(i) 361 pages 10 pages of adverts frontis and 38 illustrations many full page.Bookplate of American Antiquarian Society John Thomas Lee Fund over a previous bookplate to front paste down.No library stamps to contents or covers.Presentation inscription to Henry T Frevert from Capt F Finley March 1873. Publishers patterned cloth faded with rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners.Some marks to inner spine joints possible from binders glue reacting ?
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- Bookseller
- Hereward Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002002
- Title
- Life and Adventure in the South Pacific
- Author
- A Roving Printer [John D. Jones]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1861
- Keywords
- WHALES, WHALING
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