A YANKEE IN PATAGONIA (EDWARD CHACE)
by Barrett, Robert and Katherine; Frontispiece and Introduction By Rockwell Kent
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible-Good+/Fair
- Seller
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Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. viii, 349 pages. The Barretts were traveling through Patagonia when they met Chace (Of Taunton, Massachusetts and of Patagonia), a fearless adventurer. Book cover is quite sunned, with a couple very small faint stains on front; one corner lightly bumped. Some pages have light foxing at margins or gutter; page edges foxed. Pages 3-6 & 335-338 were crudely opened, so that there are rough tears/pieces missing from fore edges (does not affect text). Previous owner's name in pencil on half-title page. Dust jacket is price clipped; heavily toned, especially on spine; heavily chipped wtih pieces missing from extremities of spine and corners; tears along folds. In mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Collectible-Good+/Fair. Illus. by Rockwell Kent. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- H1745
- Title
- A YANKEE IN PATAGONIA (EDWARD CHACE)
- Author
- Barrett, Robert and Katherine; Frontispiece and Introduction By Rockwell Kent
- Illustrator
- Rockwell Kent
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible-Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- History Illustrated
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books; Latin America;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
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About the Seller
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Biblio member since 2004
Williamsburg, Virginia
About Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Our office, located in historic Williamsburg, Virginia, is open by appointment or by chance. We are antiquarian booksellers who buy and sell carefully selected books for collectors and researchers in many genre. We also sell important autographs and photographs as well as original art, including wood engravings by Winslow Homer and J. J. Lankes; lithographs by Miró, Matisse, Calder, Wengenroth, and others; and works from the American Etching Revival. You can reach us by telephone: (757)378-5400; or by email: twbooks1@cox.net.
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- Foxed
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- Sunned
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