The Sea Runners
by Ivan Doig
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0689113021
- ISBN 13
- 9780689113024
- Seller
-
Lutterworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Atheneum, 1982. Mid-19th Century tale of North-west America. First edition, third printing in same year, cream paper-covered boards with blind-stamped bird scene on front cover and maroon cloth spine with gilt lettering. B/w illustrations to chapter heads, 279pp. Dusty top page edges and gift inscription on ffep, otherwise book is VG. In similar, price-clipped DJ which has lightest wear to extremities. Ref:092859. First Edition (Third printing). Paper Covered/cloth Spine. VG++/VG+. 14.5x21.5cm.
Synopsis
In this timeless survival story, four indentured servants escape their Russian Alaska work camp in a stolen canoe, only to face a harrowing journey down the Pacific Northwest coast. Battling unrelenting high seas and fierce weather from New Archangel, Alaska, to Astoria, Oregon, the men struggle to avoid hostile Tlingit Indians, to fend off starvation and exhaustion, and to endure their own doubt and distrust. Based on an actual incident in 1853, The Sea Runners is a spare and awe-inspiring tale of the human quest for freedom.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Church Street Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002859
- Title
- The Sea Runners
- Author
- Ivan Doig
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++
- Jacket Condition
- VG+
- Edition
- First Edition (Third printing)
- ISBN 10
- 0689113021
- ISBN 13
- 9780689113024
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
Terms of Sale
Church Street Books
payment with order. Refund if description inaccurate
About the Seller
Church Street Books
Biblio member since 2007
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
About Church Street Books
Second-hand book dealer (formerly in a Diss Shop), with a stock of around 2000 books from modern quality literature to reference, aviation, classics and antiquarian
Glossary
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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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding 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...
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