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It's All Adventure
by Freuchen, Peter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1938. First US Edition. Hardcover. Cloth boards show some shelf wear, light damage top edge of front pastedown from removal of bookplate. ; A tight solid book, hinges intact. Red cloth covered boards with gilt tiles front and spine. Map endpapers, B&W photographs ; 9.3 X 6.2 X 1.7 inches; 508 pages; Memoirs of Danish explorer Freuchen's life in Greenland .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20205
- Title
- It's All Adventure
- Author
- Freuchen, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First US Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- Greenland, Denmark
- Bookseller catalogs
- TRAVEL;
Terms of Sale
Ainsworth Books
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About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
Biblio member since 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...