The Journey of the Flame: An Epic Spanish California Adventure by Nordhoff, Walter

BOSTON: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY. G+/FAIR BOOK REVIEW PASTED TO REAR PASTE-DOWN. Pages: 295. . 1955. HARDCOVER.. PREV. OWNER NAME INSIDE. DJ HEAVILY EDGEWORN WITH TINY CHIPS & TEARS, LONG CHIP ALONG SPINE. PAGES CLEAN, BINDING TIGHT. .

New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Orig. published in 1933 under the author's pseudonym Antonio de Fierro Blanco, a "man of mystery" who claimed that his book was an autobiographical account of "One Year in the Life of Senor Don Juan Obrigon, Known During Past Years in the Three Californias as Juan Colorado and to the Indiada of the Same as The Flame..." This is the First Edition, First Printing, under the author's real name from the Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin from 1955 (First, thus), in 295 pages with map endpapers + illustrations throughout the text by Alfredo Ramos Martinez & a Preface to the Second Edition by author Scott O'Dell. With green patterned cloth-covered boards ruled 7 lettered in darker green to front & spine, this hardcover small octavo is in Near Fine condition: exceptionally clean & bright, binding strong & straight, pages lightly tanned but completely… Read More

No Date. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket. The Easton Press, Pub., translated by Arthur Jeffery; foreword by Gerhard Bowering; decorated by Valenti Angelo; Collector's Edition; bound in full leather; AS NEW condition; Fine Bindings