Year With Three Summers
by Mackworth-Praed, Ben & Mike Andrews
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Cassell. Fair in Fair dust jacket. (1964). First Edition. Hardcover. An ex-library copy. Library stamps and markings. Lacking the front free endpaper and half-title page. Hinges taped. Edges of boards rubbed and worn. Adhesive tape stains to boards and endpapers. Dust-jacket flaps cropped, without loss of text but very close to the text. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; (iii)-xiii, [1], 257 pages + 26 illustrations on 8 plate leaves. 5 small maps (within the pagination). Blue papered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 210 x 139mm. An account of the Cambridge Trans-American Expedition, the first expedition to drive the length of the Americas. 40,000 miles over 17 countries. "A hot, wet, 200-mile walk through the roadless Darien isthmus took the party as far as dinner at the Panama Hilton [. . .]" - from dust-jacket blurb. .
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Details
- Seller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 18355
- Title
- Year With Three Summers
- Author
- Mackworth-Praed, Ben & Mike Andrews
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Cassell
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1964)
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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