The Arctic Year
by Peter Freuchen and Finn Salomonsen
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1959 Book. Illus. by Erik Petersen. Very Good. Quarter Bound Blue Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Month by month account of life in the Arctic, a collaboration by a famous Arctic explorer and a Danish ornithologist. 440pp with index, illustrated with black and white drawings and maps. Bound with spine in blue cloth over illustrated paper boards. Black lettering to spine and top board. Maps to endpapers. Top edges tinted. Minimal bumping to corners and former owner's book plate to endpaper, otherwise very good copy. Unclipped DJ has some edge and surface wear, old price label to flyleaf and darkened spine, otherwise good..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015583
- Title
- The Arctic Year
- Author
- Peter Freuchen and Finn Salomonsen
- Illustrator
- Erik Petersen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature, Wildlife and Ecology;
Terms of Sale
Washburn Books
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About the Seller
Washburn Books
Biblio member since 2010
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
Washburn Books is a small family business, based in Yorkshire. We offer a wide variety of hard-to-find and out-of-print books in our virtual store, as well as an offline search service. We take pride in our fast delivery of well packaged books.
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