'Birdie' Bowers of the Antarctic
by Seaver, George; with an introduction by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: John Murray. Good in Good dust jacket. (1951). Hardcover. Front free endpaper torn out. Gutter split at front hinge. 3/8" missing at head of dustjacket spine. A couple of 3/8" chips to front panel of dustjacket. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 1947 reprint. xxiii, [1], 270 pages + frontispiece + 12 plates + 1 in-text map + 1 folding map + [2] pages advertisements. Blue cloth boards. White panel and gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216mm x 138mm. Travel, Polar. ; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16196
- Title
- 'Birdie' Bowers of the Antarctic
- Author
- Seaver, George; with an introduction by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1951)
- Keywords
- Antarctic Polar
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
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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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- 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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...