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ANIMALS OF THE ARCTIC - In Action and Adventure
by Powers, Alfred
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: David McKay Company, 1965. Book. Illus. by Larry Toschik;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (ix) 272 pp. Beige cloth lettered in green on the spine. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket with some rubbing on the front panel; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: A Hundred Centuries in Deep-Freeze; Hairy Mammoths for the Ivory Hunters; The Woolly Rhinoceros; Lord of the Great White Land; Polar Bear, Compendium of the Arctic; Toilers in Midday Night and Midnight Day; Sled Dogs of Bitter Trails; Speedy but Wilful Reindeer; Shivering Horses; Mostly Too Cold for the Big Cats; Sabre-Toothed Tiger; The Lynx; Grazers on Desolate Tundras; The Smelly Musk-Ox; Thickets of Horns in the Blizzards; Life Fed by Death in the Reddned Snow; Pack of the Gaunt White Wolves; Foxes Beyond the Magnetic Pole; Cunning, Marauding Wolverines; Bleak Traplines for the Riches Robes; World Wealth from Four Little Polar Furs; Gnawers North to All Plant End; Porcupine, Hoary Marmot, Little White Lemming, Big White Hare; Fin-Footers from Under the Ice Floes; Seals in Need of Breathing Holes; The Ugly Walrus; Big Swimmers of the Frozen Ocean; The Sea Unicorn's Tooth; and Mighty Whales and Daring Men..
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- Bookseller
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 227513
- Title
- ANIMALS OF THE ARCTIC - In Action and Adventure
- Author
- Powers, Alfred
- Illustrator
- Larry Toschik;
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- David McKay Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- wild country; outdoors; mammoths; ivory hunters; wooly rhinoceros; environment; environmental; sled dogs; reindeer; sabre-toothed tiger; lynx; musk-ox; wolves; foxes; wolverines; polar bears; procupine; marmots; lemmings; hares; walrus;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Outdoors - Wildlife and Nature;
Terms of Sale
W. Fraser Sandercombe
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About the Seller
W. Fraser Sandercombe
Biblio member since 2004
Burlington, Ontario
About W. Fraser Sandercombe
We are primarily an Internet-only bookstore, selling on-line for over twenty-three years; our shop can, however, be visited by appointment through an e-mail. We specialize in First Editions and collectible books (and usually have around 500 signed editions in stock at any given moment) ranging through most of the genres: Fantasy; Horror; Science Fiction; Mysteries; and a good selection of Literature; Historical Adventure; History; Outdoors; True Crime; and Assorted Non-fiction. We stock roughly 9000 books and add to our catalogues regularly.
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