The Fire Ox and Other Years
by Cutting, Suydam
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Between service in the World Wars, Cutting was a high-society naturalist & adventurer, starting with Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt Jr.'s expedition to Turkestan; here he recounts that trip as well as visits to Assam, China, Nepal, Tibet, the Andaman Islands, Celebes, the Galapagos, Burma, & Ethiopia. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the first edition (first printing), with Scribner's "A" on copyright page. Light wear to book, inner hinges tender with minor chipping, tanning; jacket tanned, edgeworn & chipped with short tears & streak on spine. Text clean; xviii, [2], 393 pages; indexes, b/w photos mostly by the author, drawings, maps. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Alexandre Iacovleff. Large Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- w0194
- Title
- The Fire Ox and Other Years
- Author
- Cutting, Suydam
- Illustrator
- Alexandre Iacovleff
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
- Size
- Large Octavo
- Keywords
- Travel, Exploration, Adventure, India, Asia, Himalayas, Africa
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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