WEST WITH THE NIGHT
by Markham, Beryl
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Austin, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. [x], [294]pp [price clipped, but $3.00 price on rear dust jacket panel; some rubbing and edge wear to jacket, including chip to lower spine obstructing publisher name; 1942 date on title and copyright pages; ink name inside rear cover; spine just lightly cocked]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
West With the Night is a 1942 memoir by Beryl Markham, chronicling her experiences growing up in Kenya, in the early 1900s, leading to a career as a bush pilot there. It is considered a classic of outdoor literature, in 2004 National Geographic Adventure ranked it number 8 in a list of 100 best adventure books. There are some questions of whether Markham is the real author of her memoir West With The Night.
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Details
- Bookseller
- David H. Gerber Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017321
- Title
- WEST WITH THE NIGHT
- Author
- Markham, Beryl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- Biography, Memoir, Aviation
- Bookseller catalogs
- Retain;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
David H. Gerber Books
Biblio member since 2003
Austin, Texas
About David H. Gerber Books
David H. Gerber - Books is an Internet and referral only business that has been involved in bookselling and booksearching since 1989. We feature a very general stock of out-of-print books ranging from juvenile to erotica, from mysteries to expositions, and from the mundane to the sublime, but with an ever increasing emphasis on non-fiction, particularly in the areas of history, Texas, politics, scholarly, and the unusual and esoteric.
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- Jacket
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