Conquest By Man [The Saga of Early Exploration and Discovery]
by Herrmann, Paul
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
Item Price
€8.05€5.24
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Oversized hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, xxiii + 455 pages, "Profusely illustrated with 32 pages of half-tones, 60 in-text pictures and drawings and 31 maps"; book very gently used, tight in binding, only tiny traces of shelf waer to spine ends and bottom cover edges, front and back free endpapers neatly removed, very clean and unmarked throughout; DJ has numerous tiny chips and tears, heavier chipping at spine top. [this copy priced low, priced to go to a good home as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H at cost may be requested] . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.
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- Bookseller
- Eric James (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 042178
- Title
- Conquest By Man [The Saga of Early Exploration and Discovery]
- Author
- Herrmann, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- MARINE NAVAL HISTORY EXPLORATION DISCOVERY Ocean Sea
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Transportation;
Terms of Sale
Eric James
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- Chipping
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- First Edition
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