The Isles of Unwisdom
by Graves, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket; Bookstore stamp on front pastedown endpaper, owner name on front free endpaper, boards lightly r
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Cassell and Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Bookstore stamp on front pastedown . endpaper, owner name on front free endpaper, boards lightly rubbed, jacket . heavily tattered.. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth binding with gilt lettering stamped on spine. xiv + 417 pages. Frontispiece map of the route of Spanish General Alvaro de Mendana y Castro and his convoy of ships that set sail in 1595 from Peru to colonize the Solomon Islands. Jacket art by Barbosa. An historical novel about General de Mendana's expedition, based on Graves' extensive research among Spanish naval documents, which sought to add riches and lands to the Spanish empire, but ended with only one storm-damaged ship limping into Manila with the General's widow and some starving sailors. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 417 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24470
- Title
- The Isles of Unwisdom
- Author
- Graves, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket; Bookstore stamp on front pastedown endpaper, owner name on front free endpaper, boards lightly r
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- Spanish, Armada, General, Mendana, 16th, Century, History, Spanish, Sailors
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction; All;
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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