Travels in the Americas
by Newcombe, Jack (editor)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1555843301
- ISBN 13
- 9781555843304
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. Hardcover, large octavo in price-clipped dust-jacket. 434 pages. First edition, first printing with full number line. A collection of 58 travel tales encompassing both North and South America, as well as the Caribbean, from Samuel Hearne's "Journey to the Arctic Ocean" to Bruce Chatwin's "In Patagonia." Book block shows foxing on outer edges, else a clean, square, unmarked copy. Good in a very good dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013748
- Title
- Travels in the Americas
- Author
- Newcombe, Jack (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1555843301
- ISBN 13
- 9781555843304
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Travel, Exploration, Western Hemisphere
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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