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The Golden Wind
by De Camp, L. Sprague
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- first
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- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. 288pp. Fifteen centuries before Marco Polo, Eudoxos of Kyzikos opened the first direct trading route to the East. Seeking wealth he made several voyages across the Indian Ocean and Africa. But he sought more in those lands than wealth; he hoped desperately for relief from the terrible affliction that forced his wife to desert him.Bound in blue cloth spine lettering gilt, some fading to edges, book leaning just a bit, A very good copy in very good unclipped pictorial dust jacket, some toning to jacket, Doubleday sticker to rear panel.
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- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001591
- Title
- The Golden Wind
- Author
- De Camp, L. Sprague
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Travel Exploration Voyages Africa
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Alcuin Books located in Old Town Scottsdale is a store with 15,000 serious books for the collector or scholar. We have ample parking in front of the store for those who wish to browse our holdings.
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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- Edges
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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