Adventure!

by Carveth Wells

[30 Day Return Guarantee] Price: $55.00

Book Description

The John Day Company Inc., New York, 1931. Hard Cover. No Dust Jacket. Size Inches 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 1 1/2. Book Interior NEAR FINE / Dust Jacket Missing. Book has ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH in ink. Book is NOT EX-library. Sewn binding. Rag edge pages. Boards and spine are blue cloth, lettering gilt. Front cover is clean, flat, no rips, no stains, has a slightly rubbed bottom corner tip, has no edge wear on top edge and only minor rubbing of colour on bottom edge, there are two faint marks from a fingernail rubbing across front cover cloth. Spine is clean, very slightly sunned, no rips, no stains, has a bit of colour rubbed on top and side edges and a bit more on bottom edge with a slight crease but no where is the cloth holed. Back cover is like front cover. Page edges very slightly sunned, top edge colour is red. Inner end papers are red/white map of the world 1931, both front and back are the same. Second page in has ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH on a light yellow 4 7/8 x 3 5/16 inch label by Author "Carveth Wells" in blue ink. Inside of book is tight, clean, bright, clear, flat, smells just fine. Book is slightly over-opened at title page with the paper cracked for 3/4 of height and spine cloth can be seen but there is no big gap and no pages are loose or missing. I didn't see any dog ears. Small bit of age darkening in places and photo plates are more ivory than white coloured. Owner's name, in pencil was on same page as autograph but has been erased off leaving its shadow. Gently read. A nice copy missing only its dust jacket. THIS LISTING INCLUDES PHOTO OF ACTUAL BOOK FOR SALE. Original AUTOGRAPH on a light yellow 4 7/8 x 3 5/16 inch label by Author "Carveth Wells" in blue ink, and label is printed with a red elephant and "Here's to adventure!". Black/white photo plates, and title page plate "Carveth Wells". With a Foreword by Lowell Thomas. Carveth Wells 1887 to ? Foreword, Preface, Contents, Appendix.

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