Spring on an Arctic Island
by Scherman, Katharine
- Used
- first
- Condition
- A New Fine Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket.
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DeLand, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Little, Brown & Company: Boston, 1956. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. A New Fine Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket..
No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, map endpages; 4 leaves of plates; 331 pages with an index; 8vo; 8.5 inches tall. First Edition, First Printing.. A group of scientists spends a season in 1954 living with the people of the Arctic and studying wildlife. This is the story of the unfolding of an Arctic springtime, a subtle and exciting flowering which dwellers in the Temperate Zone can only fleetingly imagine -- perhaps on an early morning in April.
No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, map endpages; 4 leaves of plates; 331 pages with an index; 8vo; 8.5 inches tall. First Edition, First Printing.. A group of scientists spends a season in 1954 living with the people of the Arctic and studying wildlife. This is the story of the unfolding of an Arctic springtime, a subtle and exciting flowering which dwellers in the Temperate Zone can only fleetingly imagine -- perhaps on an early morning in April.
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- Bookseller
- Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA] (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014877
- Title
- Spring on an Arctic Island
- Author
- Scherman, Katharine
- Format/Binding
- Near Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Boston
- Place of Publication
- Little, Brown & Company
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- Bylot Island (Nunavut) --Arctic regions ; Canada; Zoology
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