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South Sea Adventure
by PRICE Willard
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0224606220
- ISBN 13
- 9780224606226
- Seller
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Darfield , Canterbury, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1975 tidy used copy, flying fish design to upper board, dust jacket is price clipped with spine lightly sunned, has some wear and short splits to joint ends and corners, small tear to top of rear panel, frontispiece is foxed to the verso, 222pp illustrated in line, small pen scribble to fep covers a name . reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Pat Marriott. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
Synopsis
WILLARD PRICE was born in 1887 in Peterborough, Ontario. He held a special interest for natural history, ethnology and exploration and made numerous expeditions for the American Museum of Natural History and the National Geographic Society. He went on to edit various magazines on travel and world affairs and spent six years working in Japan as foreign correspondent for New York and London newspapers. He wrote fourteen adventure stories featuring Hal and Roger Hunt and travelled in seventy-seven countries before his death in 1983.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006908
- Title
- South Sea Adventure
- Author
- PRICE Willard
- Illustrator
- Pat Marriott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0224606220
- ISBN 13
- 9780224606226
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Fiction Childrens Jungle Pacific Islands Willard Price First
- Bookseller catalogs
- CHILDRENS YOUNG ADULT;
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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