Richard Halliburton: His Story Of His Life's Adventure As Told in Letters to His Mother and Father
by Richard Halliburton
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +/No Jacket
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1940 Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN. c1940. Hardcover. Later Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a small gift inscription on the FFFP verso dated 1940. Book Condition: Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, tips, board top and bottom edges, and spine shoulders; light bumping to tips. No DJ. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Maps as endpapers. Tinted textblock top. 433 pp 8vo. Richard was a prolific letter writer to his parents during all of his travels. His letters were long and full; sometimes just brief jottings, and sometime long letters written bit by bit throughout the day. Following his death sailing the Sea Dragon his parents debated over what to do with the letters that were a complete record of his life. Written with no thought of publication, they account for nearly every week of his career, from the day he entered Princeton in 1917 until the day he set sail in the ill-fated Sea Dragon. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016976
- Title
- Richard Halliburton: His Story Of His Life's Adventure As Told in Letters to His Mother and Father
- Author
- Richard Halliburton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis, IN
- Date Published
- 1940
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Sea Dragon, Richard Halliburton, letters of Richard Halliburton, Princeton, airplane travel, ship travel, travel journal, travel letters. LGBTQ, homosexual, gay,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography; LGBT Issues;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Shelfwear
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- Spine
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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