London: S. W. Partridge & Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. Second Edition. Hardcover. "Second Edition. Tenth Thousand. " 160 pages + frontis + in-text illustrations and map + 28 pages advertisments. Brown cloth covers with gilt and black lettering and decoration on spine and front board. Front free endpaper and half-title page missing. Cloth coveros clean. Some rubbing to edges of spine and boards. Contents: The Frozen Field and its History; A Cry from Macedon; Disappointments and Deliverance; Almost Abandoned; Sunshine and Shadow; The Moravians Come; Pestilence and Patience; How the Greenlanders Live; Their Religious Ideas and Superstitions; The Story of KAjarnak; God's Work Goes On.; 12mo .

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 002294
Title: Amid Greenland Snows or the Early History of Arctic Missions
Author: Page, Jesse
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
Edition: Second Edition
Publisher: S. W. Partridge & Co.
Place of Publication: London

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We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.

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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...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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...
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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....