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The Arctic Diary of Russell Williams Porter
by Porter, Russell Williams; Herman Friis (Edited by)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0813906490
- ISBN 13
- 9780813906492
- Seller
-
BERKELEY, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 0-8139-0649-0 . Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, well-illustrated with full-page reproductions of drawings and watercolors (some color) from Porter's manuscripts. White dust jacket reproduces one of Porter's drawings on front cover with photograph of Porter "Sketching on the arctic ice". ; 9-1/2" x 10-1/4"; xii, 172 pp; Little wear to covers, page edges have some light soiling, a few corner creases to last few pages. Jacket lightly edgeworn, lightly soiled, sunned at spine, in clear protective cover. .
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- Bookseller
- Andrew Langer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6492
- Title
- The Arctic Diary of Russell Williams Porter
- Author
- Porter, Russell Williams; Herman Friis (Edited by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0813906490
- ISBN 13
- 9780813906492
- Publisher
- University Press of Virginia
- Place of Publication
- Charlottesville
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- 0-8139-0649-0
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arctic;
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About the Seller
Andrew Langer, Bookseller
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BERKELEY, California
About Andrew Langer, Bookseller
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- Sunned
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- Cloth
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
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