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The Voyage of the Lucky Dragon
by Lapp, Ralph E.; Pearl S. Buck (foreword)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition stated. Black cloth spine over charcoal cloth boards, lettered in red & gilt, map endpapers, octavo. Owner's name & stamp to front endpapers else near fine. Original price of $3.50 intact on DJ flap, tape stain and a few soil marks to rear panel of DJ; front cover & spine look great; designed by Philip Grushkin. A narrative of the Japanese fishing boat whose crew were the first victims of the "superbomb" exploded by the US at Bikini Atoll.
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- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002658
- Title
- The Voyage of the Lucky Dragon
- Author
- Lapp, Ralph E.; Pearl S. Buck (foreword)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Date Published
- 1958
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- atomic bomb energy nuclear war military fallout radiation
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About the Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper
Biblio member since 2005
Portland, Oregon
About Crooked House Books & Paper
Welcome to the Crooked House, a one-of-a-kind bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the beautiful and unusual: books by, for and about women, cookery, domestic science, decorative publishers bindings, weird how-to books and ephemera, 1920s-30s women's magazines, Modern Library, and more.
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