Land Below the Wind
by Keith, Agnes Newton
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1939. Book. Illus. by Keith, Agnes Newton. Fair. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii, 371 pages. Black and white sketches by the author. Map of North Borneo. Handsome batik decorated cloth-covered boards. Map endpapers. Named the Atlantic Monthly's non-fiction book of the year for 1938. Author and her husband, a conservator of forests, spent four years in Sandakan in Borneo. Some of their adventures are recorded herein. Unmarked with average wear. Narrow opening in binding at title page. Dust jacket not included. A worthy copy. Bonus: includes informative 1970s news clippings about the author.
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- Bookseller
- RareNonFiction.com (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 431H3415
- Title
- Land Below the Wind
- Author
- Keith, Agnes Newton
- Illustrator
- Keith, Agnes Newton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- Borneo Malay Malaysia Travel Adventure
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asia; Biography; Travel, Exploration & Adventure;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
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- Title Page
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