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Athabasca
by MacLean, Alistair
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- vg-/G+
- ISBN 10
- 0385172044
- ISBN 13
- 9780385172042
- Seller
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. vg-/G+. Hardcover, in dust jacket. 12mo, red cloth spine over black boards, gilt lettering on spine. vg-, (spine ends bumped, inner of both paste downs faded, corners of boards bumped) in g+ dj, heavy creasing at edges, fading around all sides, small tears around edges from wear) 325pp
Synopsis
The nail-biting tale of sabotage set in the desolate frozen wastes of two ice-bound oil fields, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.
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- Bookseller
- Page 1 Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40205
- Title
- Athabasca
- Author
- MacLean, Alistair
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - vg-
- Jacket Condition
- G+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385172044
- ISBN 13
- 9780385172042
- Publisher
- Doubleday and Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1980
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Page 1 Books
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
About Page 1 Books
The Special Collections Room within Page 1 Books, the largest used bookstore in Albuquerque, NM. We offer a broad selection of collectible and out-of-print books and ephemera in all genres.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- G+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good. Good is defined as "describes the average used and worn book...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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