Captain Cook.
by MacLean, Alistair
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Dust Jacket Included
- Seller
-
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, (1972). Book. Fine. Hardcover. Octavo, dark green cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 192pp. with index. Generously illustrated with many plates in black and white and color. Fine, tight, fresh and unread copy in brilliant, crisp and sharp price-clipped dust jacket..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 01511
- Title
- Captain Cook.
- Author
- MacLean, Alistair
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Publisher
- Garden City: Doubleday, (1972).
- Keywords
- CAPTAIN COOK, POLYNESIA, ANTIPODES, AUSTRALIA, BIOGRAPHY, MACLEAN, SAILING SHIPS TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Exploration;
Terms of Sale
Brillig Books
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
Biblio member since 2006
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
An independent bookseller of uncommon, out-of-print, used and rare books since 1991.
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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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
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