Rounding the Horn
by Murphy, Dallas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0465047599
- ISBN 13
- 9780465047598
- Seller
-
Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 2004. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Fine. Very clean pale orange boards with clean black spine, metallic lettering on spine. Very small bump to one corner tip; no other wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 358 pgs. with index. Illustrated with maps. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. The story of Williwaws and Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, murdered missionaries and naked natives -- a deck's eye view of Cape Horn. 8vo. adventure/travel..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015361
- Title
- Rounding the Horn
- Author
- Murphy, Dallas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0465047599
- ISBN 13
- 9780465047598
- Publisher
- Basic Books, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- CAPE HORN CHILE TRAVEL ADVENTURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel; ships/sailing/shipwrecks; South America;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.