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Nearest the Pole. A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906
by Peary, R. E
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1907. First edition, 1907. Sound ex-library copy. Blue-green cloth printed in gilt, 10.25" tall, 411 pages plus two color folding maps at rear, color frontis, other full page illustrations throughout. Covers rubbed, mainly at the extremities, spine number, social library bookplate and patron pocket, small library stamp on title page, good hinges, sound text block, maps very good with a couple of extra creases, pages clean with light foxing to the margins of the frontis illustration.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Seller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 037704
- Title
- Nearest the Pole. A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906
- Author
- Peary, R. E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1907
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- POLAR EXPLORATION NORTH POLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel & Exploration, International Culture;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Gilt
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- Title Page
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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