TO THE SOUTH SEAS: THE CRUISE OF THE SCHOONER MARY PINCHOT TO THE GALAPAGOS , THE MARQUESAS, THE TUAMOTU ISLANDS AND TAHITI
by Pinchot, Gifford
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hutchinson & Co. Bound in clean blue buckram, with gilt titles to spine, this circa 1930 hardcover First Edition is VG. xiii/500pp, with over 250 reproductions of photographs taken on the cruise and with wood engravings, colour frontispiece, endpaper maps. Spine slightly faded, a few scuffs on boards; FFEP and BFEE browned, foxing to fore edge; inside, two pages are creased with some marks. Otherwise, all looks VG. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1930.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Camillas Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0020685
- Title
- TO THE SOUTH SEAS: THE CRUISE OF THE SCHOONER MARY PINCHOT TO THE GALAPAGOS , THE MARQUESAS, THE TUAMOTU ISLANDS AND TAHITI
- Author
- Pinchot, Gifford
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1930
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Terms of Sale
Camillas Bookshop
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About the Seller
Camillas Bookshop
Biblio member since 2009
Eastbourne, East Sussex
About Camillas Bookshop
Camilla's Bookshop is a large secondhand and antiquarian bookstore situated in the resort town of Eastbourne.We have more than 500,000 books in all categories. Our specialities include: armed forces, transport, travel, politics, history, literature (several thousand novels including modern firsts), religion, esoteric & occult and art.Shop hours are 10:00 - 17:00, excepting Sundays and Bank Holidays.Unfortunately, we do not ship to Denmark.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...