Views A-Foot: Or Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff
by Taylor, Bayard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket; Silverfish damage to boards, boards lightly rubbed, first page of text loose, contemporary gift inscr
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: John B. Alden. Good with no dust jacket; Silverfish damage to boards, boards lightly . rubbed, first page of text loose, contemporary gift inscription on front . flyleaf, spine sunned.. 1889. Later Printing. Hardcover. Brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on front boards and spine. Frontispiece engraved portrait of the author. Preface by N. P. Willis. Author hiked around Europe in 1844-45 and notes that a two-year trip should cost a minimum of $472. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 481 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36404
- Title
- Views A-Foot: Or Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff
- Author
- Taylor, Bayard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket; Silverfish damage to boards, boards lightly rubbed, first page of text loose, contemporary gift inscr
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- John B. Alden
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- Vintage Travel, Travel Writing, EUROPEAN 19th Century Travel, Vintage Travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Adventure;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- Gilt
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- Sunned
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- Cloth
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