THE HIGH, HIGH ROAD
by Smith, Henry Ladd
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pageant Press, 1965. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. New York: Pageant Press, 1965. Stated first edition. 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches: pp. [12], 244. Green dust jacket, with illustration of a U.S. Mail airplane, and white type. Bound in green boards with black lettering to spine.
Some minor foxing to front and rear endpapers. DJ has a half inch closed tear to front top edge, and some minor rubbing to back side of DJ.
"Henry Ladd Smith was born in Cleveland, Ohio. As a boy he saw the Cleveland-Chicago segment of the pioneer air-mail route grow from coast to coast. He was graduated from Yale in 1929. After six years of newspaper work in Cleveland and Tacoma, he returned to college and earned a Ph. D in history at the University of Wisconsin". (Taken from about the author section on rear part dust jacket). 244 pp.
Some minor foxing to front and rear endpapers. DJ has a half inch closed tear to front top edge, and some minor rubbing to back side of DJ.
"Henry Ladd Smith was born in Cleveland, Ohio. As a boy he saw the Cleveland-Chicago segment of the pioneer air-mail route grow from coast to coast. He was graduated from Yale in 1929. After six years of newspaper work in Cleveland and Tacoma, he returned to college and earned a Ph. D in history at the University of Wisconsin". (Taken from about the author section on rear part dust jacket). 244 pp.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 700
- Title
- THE HIGH, HIGH ROAD
- Author
- Smith, Henry Ladd
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Stated First Edition
- Publisher
- Pageant Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- U.S. Airmail, Post Office, Mail Service
Terms of Sale
Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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About the Seller
Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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Eugene, Oregon
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