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The Amazon: The Life History of a Mighty River

The Amazon: The Life History of a Mighty River

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The Amazon: The Life History of a Mighty River

by HASKINS, Caryl P

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  • Hardcover
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. xviii, 415 p. 24 cm. Map on endpapers. B&w plates. Beige cloth hardcover in mylar-covered pictorial dustjacket. Spine faded, small chips and tears in edges, price-clipped front flap. Former owner's label on half title. Includes letter hand-written by the author's wife to a friend on Haskins Laboratories letterhead, 3 Christmas cards from Caryl and Edna Haskins (one signed, other printed), small card signed by Edna, copy of an essay entitled Culture and Power in the Modern World by Caryl Haskins.

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Bookseller
Attic Books CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
103689
Title
The Amazon: The Life History of a Mighty River
Author
HASKINS, Caryl P
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.
Place of Publication
Garden City, New York
Date Published
1943
Keywords
Rivers, International, Amazon River
Bookseller catalogs
Rivers;

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