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VOYAGING SOUTHWARD FROM THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN
by KENT, Rockwell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good +/Fair
- Seller
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924. First Edition. Very good +/Fair. 4to. 184pp. Top page edge gilt. Mustard cloth over boards with ink title illustration. Original dust jacket with woodcut design matching cloth. Jacket with prominent sections of loss from spine, crudely tape mended to exterior and interior. Panels near fully intact. Cloth with trace exterior foxing. Internally clean, bright, unmarked. Binding sound. An about very good-plus copy in a fair only jacket which presents significantly better than its described condition would suggest.
A lovely first edition copy of Kent's lavishly woodcut-illustrated sailing memoir of his own journey around the tip of South America. Uncommon in jacket.
A lovely first edition copy of Kent's lavishly woodcut-illustrated sailing memoir of his own journey around the tip of South America. Uncommon in jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Martin Hartzold
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1606
- Title
- VOYAGING SOUTHWARD FROM THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN
- Author
- KENT, Rockwell
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1924
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Martin Hartzold
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Martin Hartzold
Biblio member since 2018
St. Louis, Missouri
About Martin Hartzold
Generalist concern with developing specialties in vernacular photography, transportation, and the Midwest.
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- Fair
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
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