Northwest to Fortune: The Search of Western Man for a Commercially Practical Route to the Far East
by Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1960. History of the search for a commercial viable northern searoute between eastern North America and western Asia. First British edition. Hardcover, full grey cloth, silver titling. Light wear to book & jacket; rear jacket panel foxed, minor corner creases to a few pages. Text clean; xix, blank, 356 pages; index, maps.. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by James MacDonald. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- p0639
- Title
- Northwest to Fortune: The Search of Western Man for a Commercially Practical Route to the Far East
- Author
- Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
- Illustrator
- James MacDonald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First British Edition
- Publisher
- George Allen & Unwin Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- Canada, Seafaring, Shipping, Exploration, Northwest Passage
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...