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A Pole Apart - the Emerging Issue of Antarctica
by Philip W. Quigg
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0070510539
- ISBN 13
- 9780070510531
- Seller
-
Lutterworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: New Press / mcGraw-hill, 1983. Report on history and international future of the continent for the Twentieth Century Fund. Pale-blue covers with dark-blue spine and white lettering, 299pp inc index, with b/w maps. Covers have very little signs of use, dusty, foxed top page edges and partially-removed small sticker on ffep only obvious faults. Unclipped DJ has very modest edge wear, a tiny bit of damage (1cm) to foot of upper fore edge, but is in a protective jacket. Overall a VG copy. Ref:114770. First Edition. Paper-Covered Cloth Spine. VG+/VG+. 16x23.5cm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Church Street Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004770
- Title
- A Pole Apart - the Emerging Issue of Antarctica
- Author
- Philip W. Quigg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- VG+
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0070510539
- ISBN 13
- 9780070510531
- Publisher
- New Press / mcGraw-hill
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
Terms of Sale
Church Street Books
payment with order. Refund if description inaccurate
About the Seller
Church Street Books
Biblio member since 2007
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
About Church Street Books
Second-hand book dealer (formerly in a Diss Shop), with a stock of around 2000 books from modern quality literature to reference, aviation, classics and antiquarian
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- VG+/VG+
- A book in slightly better than Very Good Condition with a dust jacket that is in slightly better than Very Good Condition. Very...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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....
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