United Kingdom : The Travel Book Club Edition, 1958. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Fair. Octavo (standard book size). Mid-section of black and white photos. An interesting work on Antarctic including much on the bird life and, given it was the 1950s, accounts of sealing and whaling. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 248 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Endpapers foxed and some, but very little, faint foxing in text. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears and foxing on the interior of the dust jacket. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Edges foxed. Boards have some shelf wear. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Main Picture: Front cover. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50510. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting Endpapers foxed and some, but very little, faint foxing in text Edges foxed Boards have some shelf wear

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Seller: Spencer and Murphy Booksellers (AU)
Seller's Inventory #: 50510
Title: The Last Continent
Author: Liversidge, Douglas
Format/Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Book Condition: Used - Good Condition
Jacket Condition: Fair
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Travel Book Club Edition
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
Date Published: 1958
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Keywords: Antarctic BZDB397 emperor penguins, sealing, whaling penguins, Antarctic, birds Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; The Last Continent
Size: Octavo (standard book size)

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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...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Book Club Edition: A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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....
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...