Paul Bunyan
by Stevens, James:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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theberton suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Garden City Publishing New York 1925 Vg (no dj, green cloth with black lettering, spine has faded to blue, rubbed head and tail of spine and edges, top page edges tinted, clean bookplate pasted front fixed endpaper, faded gift inscription front free endpaper, pages clean and bright throughout, binding firm, rough cut page edges) octavo 245pp. First edition. Recounting the legend of Paul Bunyan, the mighty muscled logger of the French-Canadian timberlands. Illustrated with several woodcuts by Allan Lewis including frontispiece.
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- Bookseller
- lobstabooks
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41615
- Title
- Paul Bunyan
- Author
- Stevens, James:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Garden City Publishing New York 1925
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mythology;
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