Columbus: Don Quixote of the Seas

by Wassermann, Jacob

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Book Description

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1930. hardcover. Very good in good dust jacket. Price clipped./Good. First edition. 287 p. Includes index. Frontis portrait; uncut pages. 1930 Little, Brown 1st American edition-Same date on title page and copyright page. Bump to lower front coner, light wear to head/foot of spine, light toning to endpapers, o/w internally tight & unmarked. NO REMAINDER MARK; NOT X-LIBRARY. Price clipped DJ in Mylar Protector. This biography aims at discovering the real man behind the Columbus legend and romance. And here emerges a strange, dark, entrancing figure; a dreamer with little sense of reality, a man full of weakness and even failure, when not inspired by his mighty idea. The author pictures Columbus with urbanity, humor and detachment.

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