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ESKIMOLAND SPEAKS: The Land of Midnight Sunlight and Nocturnal Noon
by Van Valin, William B
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Llandudno, Conwy, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Museum Press Limited, 1945. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Fair. 1st Edition: 202 pages, illustrated, 27 b/w photographs, end paper maps. Green cloth covers with gilt titling top spine in price clipped dust jacket. Shelfware. Dust jacket tatty, pieces missing. Contents clean. The author's memoirs of life in Alaska working with the Inuit in the early 20th century, wartime quality paper; a nice solid copy. Good This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; 1900-1920; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2960. .
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- Bookseller
- Polar Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2960
- Title
- ESKIMOLAND SPEAKS: The Land of Midnight Sunlight and Nocturnal Noon
- Author
- Van Valin, William B
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Museum Press Limited
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- BZDB349 polar,qpolarq, arctic, polarbook, eskimo Arctic & Antarctic; 1900-1920; Exploration. Unbranded Van Valin, William B ESKIMOLAND SPEAKS: The Land of Midnight Sunlight and Nocturnal Noon.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration;
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Llandudno, Conwy
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
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