Safe Return Doubtful: the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration
by Maxtone-Graham, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good(+) to near fine to fine jacket housed in mylar sleeve. Jacket is NOT price-clipped in fine dust-jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0684189879
- ISBN 13
- 9780684189871
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Scribner, 1988. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Very good(+) to near fine to fine jacket housed in mylar sleeve. Jacket is NOT price-clipped in fine dust-jacket. Quarto in illus grey-blue jacket; xii, 364 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, maps; 24 cm; maps on lining papers; bibliographical references (pages 342-347) and index. Arctic Antarctic Gography. Expedition Geschichte Polar regions -- Discovery and exploration. Régions polaires -- Découverte et exploration. Polar regions. Polargebiete Note(s): Maps on lining papers./ Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-347) and index.
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- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 93863
- Title
- Safe Return Doubtful: the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration
- Author
- Maxtone-Graham, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Very good(+) to near fine to fine jacket housed in mylar sleeve. Jacket is NOT price-clipped in fine dust-jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing (full number line)
- ISBN 10
- 0684189879
- ISBN 13
- 9780684189871
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
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