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Author:
MELVILLE, HERMAN & SCHAEFFER, MEAD (Illus)
Title:
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Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton N/D
Description:
Super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black lettering & gilt palm tree illus to front board, illus eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, illus title page, viii + 289pp, illus, G+ (heavy scuffing & chipping/fraying to spine & extrems, moderate to heavy staining, minor insect damage to boards & eps, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate soiling to eps, ex-libris plate to verso of half title page, varying degrees of chipping & archival tape repairs to plates, v heavy cracking to gutters- rear board v shakey, binding quite loose to rear hence v shaky delicate rear board, varying degrees of tanning & foxingt o pages throughout)
Keywords:
classic literature Herman Melville adventure fiction novels fictional autobiography travel Polynesia