A WESTERN WIND
by Charles S Brooks and illustrations Mary Seymour Brooks:
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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theberton suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Harcourt Brace and Company New York 1935 Vg (no dj, tan cloth lightly worn and faded spine, tan paper title plate on spine and cream paper plate front board, a very good tight clean copy with previous owner's inscription front free endpaper, pages are clean and bright but foxing at one early hinge at gutter and page tops, medium browning to outside fore-edges of deckle-edged pages) 12mo 158pp. Second printing. Travels in California. Illustrated with pen and ink drawings.
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- Bookseller
- lobstabooks
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- 54836
- Title
- A WESTERN WIND
- Author
- Charles S Brooks and illustrations Mary Seymour Brooks:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace and Company New York 1935
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
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- 12mo
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