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Under the Northern Lights
by J. A. MacGahan (Januarius Aloysius); illustrations by G. R. de Wilde
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, England: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. This is a scarce original edition and sold as such despite its condition. An ex-library copy with marking to the endpapers and first page, spine cloth taped and marked. Octavo, 9" tall, 339 pages with intertextual black and white illustration plus 1 fold-out black and white map + 7 black and white plates; gilt titles on decorative green cloth. A good only hardcover edition overall with significant general shelf wear and rubbing, fore-corner tips through to boards, backstrip has been retaped by the library, hinges cracked and taped but presently secure, internal binding still secure, paper light to moderately yellowed, some minor scattered foxing, several pages have some finger soiling; folding map is complete but coming apart at the folds. The number of plates is not specified so there is no guarantee made that all are present but there is no evidence of removal. This is a rare volume. This volume could be professionally rebound.
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Details
- Seller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 40350
- Title
- Under the Northern Lights
- Author
- J. A. MacGahan (Januarius Aloysius); illustrations by G. R. de Wilde
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1876
- Keywords
- History Canada; Hudson's Bay; Eskimo; Journalist; Adventure; Memoir; Inuit; Arctic
- Bookseller catalogs
- History, Exploration;
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About the Seller
Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
Biblio member since 2005
Newmarket, New Hampshire
About Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
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Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
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