The Home Of The Blizzard. Being The Story Of The Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
by Sir Douglas Mawson
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1930. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1930. Reprinted. 438 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white photographic plates. Light thumb marking, foxing and noticeable tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Light cracking and staining to gutters but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with visible staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier chipping and tanning with noticeable splitting and crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1704279609ADA
- Title
- The Home Of The Blizzard. Being The Story Of The Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
- Author
- Sir Douglas Mawson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton Limited
- Date Published
- 1930
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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...
- Acceptable
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- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...