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THE MYSTERIOUS SEA.
by Del Rey, Lester
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good-/Good-
- Seller
-
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia: Chilton, 1961. 198 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H). Contents: Foreword: The Eternal Frontier; Water, Water Everywhere (Improbable Element / The Wild Waves / Time and Tide); The Ancient Challenge (Lore and Legend / Bell, Sub and Scuba / Mapping the Unknown); The Vasty Deeps (Down to the Sea / The Great Abyss / Rift in Reality); The Waters of Life (In the Beginning / Every Shape and Form / The Ultimate Adaptations); Bounty from the Sea (Hydroponics Unlimited / Storehouse for Eternity / The Disconcerting Dolphin); Challenge for Tomorrow (Ten Billion Plus / Treasure Trove / Project Mohole); Index. Light to heavy color fading at top and bottom edges of spine/boards and on spine; light edge wear; tiny foxint marks on edges of text block; one slight corner bump. Dust jacket is price clipped, has light to moderate edge wear/wrinkling, small edge tears with creases, rubbing and soiling on rear panel; a few small scuffs.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good-/Good-. Illus. by Jacket design by Leon Leiderman..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capricorn Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27445
- Title
- THE MYSTERIOUS SEA.
- Author
- Del Rey, Lester
- Illustrator
- Jacket design by Leon Leiderman.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chilton
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- Adaptations, Africa, Algae, Amino Acids, Antarctica, Atlantic Ocean, Atomic Power, Bacteria, Bathyscaph, Diving Bell, British Isles, David Bushnell, Challenger, Chlorella, Chlorophyll, Continental Shelf, Core Studies, Jacques Cousteau, Currents, Ocean Dep
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History; Sailing & The Sea; Science & Technology;
Terms of Sale
Capricorn Books
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About the Seller
Capricorn Books
Biblio member since 2003
Oakville, Ontario
About Capricorn Books
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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...
- First Edition
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Edges
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