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White Shadows in the South Seas
by Frederick O'Brien
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Poor
- Seller
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Bristol, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Century Co, New York, 1920. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Poor. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". xiv + 450pp. Front hinge cracking. Minor wear to spine. Foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Dust Jacket creased and torn with some loss. Tear to entirety of front joint, severing jacket in two. Edges foxed and browned. Corners bumped. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Travel & Places; Hiva Oa (Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia); 1900-1920; Anthropology. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 49896. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dreadnought Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49896
- Title
- White Shadows in the South Seas
- Author
- Frederick O'Brien
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- The Century Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- BZDB243 history, bio, culture Travel & Places; Hiva Oa (Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia); 1900-1920; Anthropology. Unbranded Frederick O'Brien White Shadows in the South Seas
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel & Places; Anthropology;
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About the Seller
Dreadnought Books
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Bristol
About Dreadnought Books
Founded in 2010, Dreadnought Books is a second-hand and out of print book dealer specialising in history, with a particular focus on military, social and labour history.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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