The last voyage : Captain Cook's lost diary / Hammond Innes
by Innes, Hammond (1913-1998)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0002214458
- ISBN 13
- 9780002214452
- Seller
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About This Item
London : Collins, 1978. First Edition. Hardback. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth with gilt pictorial vignette to front board. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 254 pages; Physical description. : 3-254 p. : 1col map (on lining papers) ; 22 cm. Subject: Cook, James, 1728-1779 - Fiction. Explorers - Fiction. Explorers - Great Britain - Fiction. English fiction. Seafaring life - Fiction. Exploration. Pacific Ocean. Fiction in English - 1945- - Texts.
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 213687
- Title
- The last voyage : Captain Cook's lost diary / Hammond Innes
- Author
- Innes, Hammond (1913-1998)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0002214458
- ISBN 13
- 9780002214452
- Publisher
- London : Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1978
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- Fine
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