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ARCTIC DREAMS, IMAGINATION AND DESIRE IN A NORTHERN LANDSCAPE (SIGNED)
by Lopez, Barry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near fine / Very Good Plus
- ISBN 10
- 0684185784
- ISBN 13
- 9780684185781
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1986. Book of the Month Club Main Selection. Hardcover. Near fine / Very Good Plus. Octavo, 6.25 x 9.5 in., pp. xxix + 464. Signed by author on title page. Blue boards with white cloth spine. Silver title to spine. Very light rubbing to bottom edges, bottom corners bumped. Age-toning to top and bottom edges of dust jacket. Price clipped. Protected in mylar. Book-Of-The-Month-Club Main Selection. "Arctic Dreams is a celebration of the Arctic landscape itself - of earth and sea and ice - and of the animals that live there....It is a story of the people who live there.... But this is also a book about dreams, about why people have gone to the Arctic and what they have found." (from the dustjacket).
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- Seller
- Aardvark Rare Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 85642
- Title
- ARCTIC DREAMS, IMAGINATION AND DESIRE IN A NORTHERN LANDSCAPE (SIGNED)
- Author
- Lopez, Barry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine / Very Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book of the Month Club Main Selection
- ISBN 10
- 0684185784
- ISBN 13
- 9780684185781
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- northern Canada, Canadian authors, National Book Award
Terms of Sale
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- Price Clipped
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
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