The Cruise of the Cachalot : Round the World After Sperm Whales
by Bullen, Frank T
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Smith, Elder, & Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1912. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library rubber stamp on front endpaper "Portobello Road Public Library". Boards rubbed with some marks. ; xviii, 375, [1 (blank)], [4 (advertisements)] pages + frontispiece ("A very large sperm whale was locked in deadly conflict with a squid." Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, blind-stamped lettering on front board. Page dimensions: 172 x 110mm. .
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Details
- Seller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 25068
- Title
- The Cruise of the Cachalot : Round the World After Sperm Whales
- Author
- Bullen, Frank T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Smith, Elder, & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1912
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
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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- Jacket
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- Good+
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- Cloth
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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
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....