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The Blue Nile
by Moorehead, Alan
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good Plus
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1962. The second of Moorehead's history of the explorations of the Nile Basin; this volume reaches back a bit further than his first volume, "The White Nile." This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition (stated). No longer a common book. Blue cloth binding with gilt titling on the spine; Harper logo on the front cover. Clean text; 308 pages; indexed. Decorative endpapers and chapter heads; 26 pages of photos; maps, including one that folds out. Laid-in is a copy of the BOMC flyer advertising Moorehead's other title on African exploration, "The White Nile." Just a hint of a splay; else a Fine copy. The dustjacket is Very Good (Plus). Unclipped, with some wrinkling, minor chipping, and a few closed tears. In an archival plastic protector.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Hailed as "utterly absorbing, (as) sweeping as the mighty river itself" ("Washington Post"), the second volume in this two-book series expands the story of the dangerous search for the source of the Nile River.
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Details
- Seller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 004703
- Title
- The Blue Nile
- Author
- Moorehead, Alan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Edition
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York and Evanston
- Date Published
- 1962
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Explorations;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- BOMC
- Book-of-the-Month Club These are popular books republished and sold at a discounted price by one of these many clubs, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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