America's Paradise Lost: The Strange Story of the Secret Atolls
by Price, Willard
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: John Day Company, 1966. Blue cloth in mylar protected dust-jacket, (8.75 x 6 inches), 240 pages with Index; illustrated. First Edition/First Printing (no other printings indicated on copyright page). "The world's largest colony, America's embarrassing burden, loveliest islands of the Pacific, a new world ripe for discovery, this is Micronesia, from Willard Price now lifts the veil of mystery." A clean, tight copy in lightly chipped unclipped dustjacket. Exceedingly scarce in first edition.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Books & Bidders, Antiquarian Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005675
- Title
- America's Paradise Lost: The Strange Story of the Secret Atolls
- Author
- Price, Willard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Day Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Travel & Exploration
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- Tight
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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