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Dark Companion -- 1948 FIRST UK EDITION
by Bradlley Robinson
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1947. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1948 FIRST UK EDITION. Original pale blue cloth with black lettering spine. LACKING the dust jacket. The book has light soiling to covers, minor rubbing to spine ends and very tips of corners, some fore-edge foxing and foxing on first two and last two pages otherwise no foxing on page faces, solid binding, old owner name dated 1948 penned to upper corner of FFEP otherwise no previous owner marks or writing on any pages. The book measures 205mm tall x 145mm, and has 255 + [1] pages, EP maps, 6 b/w photos. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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- Bookseller
- JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003194
- Title
- Dark Companion -- 1948 FIRST UK EDITION
- Author
- Bradlley Robinson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Mountaineering, Mountain Climbing, Bergsteigen, Alpinismus, Alpinism, Alpinismo, Alpinisme, Arrampicata, north pole, arctic, polar, greenland, eskimos, inuit, ski, skis, skiing, ski-ing, northwest passage
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mountaineering; Skiing; Polar;
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Portland, Oregon
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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