Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Colorful & thrilling adventure based on the journals of Cabeza de Vaca and other authentic records. Very Good/Good pictorial dust jacket; painted by Richard M. Powers. Faint damp stain on rear cover at top edge, mild edge wear at head & heel of spinestrip and corner tips. Black cloth boards w/center stamped gilt & silver ruled title & Cavalcade Colophon on front, Ochre cloth spine binding w/ruled stamped gold & silver title & Colophon. Tiny, faint strip (1/8") of damp stain on upper edge, blends wtih cloth. Lower right corner tips are bumped. Map decorated endpapers of Cabeza's Route. Deckled page edges, No Names or markings, red & black chap. headings, Author's Notes, 254 Clean, crisp & solid pp. EXCELLENT PERSONAL COPY, . Very Good. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. 1954.

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Bookseller: Julie's Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 006731
Title: Apalachee Gold the Fabulous Adventures of Cabeza De Vaca
Author: Slaughter, Frank G
Illustrator: Richard M. Powers
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Stated First Edition
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Place of Publication: Garden City, N.Y.
Date Published: 1954
Keywords: HISTORICAL FICTION ADVENTURE SPANISH EXPLORERS CABEZA DE VACA Fiction
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction;
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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