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Skyways to a Jungle Laboratory
by Crile, Grace
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: W. W. Norton, 1936. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition, First Printing.. New York: W. W. Norton, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good/Very Good+. First Edition, SIGNED by the author ( association copy - inscribed to her friend) - in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Clean blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by the author: "To Armenie Lawson with greetings and best wishes from her old friend - Grace Crile." Two articles about Grace Crile and her husband, their book and their African adventures are laid in, and have caused some brown shadowing to front free endpapers. Otherwise there are no marks, pages are clean. Illustrated with wonderful photographs. 240 pages. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, slight wear to spine ends, slight rubbing to spine. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. When Mrs. Crile accompanied her husband, Dr. George Crile, famous American surgeon, on his scientific expedition to Africa, she kept a day by day record of the journey to and from Africa by airplane and the days spent in the jungle. Mrs. Crile was a keen and delightful observer and from the moment their airplane rises at Croydon, the reader is under her magic spell..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026256
- Title
- Skyways to a Jungle Laboratory
- Author
- Crile, Grace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- ADVENTURE, TRAVEL, AFRICA, GRACE CRILE, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel; Africa;
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- Association Copy
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- Rubbing
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- Spine
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Inscribed
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
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