Yankees in Paradise: The Pacific Basin Frontier (Histories of the American Frontier series)
by GIBSON, Arrell Morgan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0826314422
- ISBN 13
- 9780826314420
- Seller
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About This Item
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 0826314422 . Stated first edition of this examination of American expansion in the Pacific Basin. Per the jacket flap: "In the 1780s,. . the newly independent United States. . .began to explore another frontier-the Pacific Ocean." Completed with the assistance of John S. Whitehead. With several pages of black & white photos, drawings and paintings; five maps. --- In tan cloth-covered boards with green foil titling to spine. Jacket features color "Hawaiian Wedding in Kona" painting by Guy Buffet. --- A clean, unmarked, tightly-bound copy but with slight soiling to cover. Jacket with minor soiling and a few tiny tears, else intact and bright.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); xii, 495 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 82074
- Title
- Yankees in Paradise: The Pacific Basin Frontier (Histories of the American Frontier series)
- Author
- GIBSON, Arrell Morgan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0826314422
- ISBN 13
- 9780826314420
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Place of Publication
- Albuquerque
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- 0826314422
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>American History & Politics;
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