Birdie" Bowers of the Antarctic
by George Seaver. With an Introduction By Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1944. Reprint . Cloth Bound Boards. Good/No Jacket. 1944 Reprint. Size octavo, 266 pages including index. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles on cream panel to the spine, no dust jacket. Book condition good, corners and edges rubbed, hinges a bit loose, a few spots to first and last few pages else contents clean. The story of one of the lesser known participants in Scott's epic venture in Antarctica, with an Introduction by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Bookseller
- Lazarus Books Limited
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015815
- Title
- Birdie" Bowers of the Antarctic
- Author
- George Seaver. With an Introduction By Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- Format/Binding
- Cloth Bound Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- NON FICTION BIOGRAPHY TRAVEL EXPLORATION DISCOVERY ADVENTURE SOUTH POLE EXPEDITION CAPTAIN ROBERT SCOTT
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About the Seller
Lazarus Books Limited
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Blackpool, Lancashire
About Lazarus Books Limited
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- 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...
- Spine
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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