Notes on a Drum - Travel Sketches in Guatemala
by JACKSON, Joseph Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1937. Hardcover. Stated first printing. In full orange cloth-covered boards with Guatamala native decorations on cover and spine in orange and black. Publisher's orange topstain. With numerous sepia-toned photos. With maps of author's travels at endpapers. Bears prev. owner's penciled and inked signatures on half-title and on title page and slightly sunned spine; is otherwise a clean, firm copy. Lacks the dust jacket. --- Californian's account of his travels in Guatemala and his encounters with peoples thereof. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74764
- Title
- Notes on a Drum - Travel Sketches in Guatemala
- Author
- JACKSON, Joseph Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
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