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N. A. 1. The North-South Continental Highway Looking North, Looking South (2 volumes)
by Stewart, George R
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge: The Riverside Press, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Erwin Raisz. 176; 230pp. Quarto [24 cm] Green cloth with black and yellow ink stamped titles and map design on the spine and front cover. Endsheets illustrated with maps of the world. The extremities are lightly rubbed and bumped. With the dust jackets designed by George Kelly. In very good and good condition, with mild age-toning, creasing, and rubbing. The dust jacket of volume 1 has short edge tears. The dust jacket of volume 2 is price-clipped, and the edges are chipped, and have multiple closed and open tears. The longest closed tear is 1 and 1/2 inches long. The panels are a trifle soiled. Maps by Erwin Raisz. From the dust jacket- "The road passes through country of incredible variety, through desert and jungle, Old World village and modern city, mountain and plain, wilderness and farmland. It is being constantly improved and pushed toward its next immediate goal, the Panama Canal. It is now open to tourist travel as far as Costa Rica, and to drive it is an adventure whose exotic flavor is caught in this book.
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- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37629
- Title
- N. A. 1. The North-South Continental Highway Looking North, Looking South (2 volumes)
- Author
- Stewart, George R
- Illustrator
- Erwin Raisz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Riverside Press, Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- North-South Continental Highway; motoring; Mexico; Costa Rica; Panama Canal
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- First Edition
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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