The Amazon

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. xviii, 415 p. 24 cm. Map on endpapers. B&w plates. Beige cloth hardcover in mylar-covered pictorial dustjacket. Spine faded, small chips and tears in edges, price-clipped front flap. Former owner's label on half title. Includes letter hand-written by the author's wife to a… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1943. 415 pp. Original tan cloth covers, very bright and clean. Light scattered foxing. First few leaves dog-eared. DJ has mild wear and short tears to edges. Moderately soiled. Illust. w/ 13 b/w plates. Contents nice.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Very Good. 8vo -… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. shelf wear to book and jacket, stated first edition. 8vo.. Hard Cover. Caryl P. Haskins (1908–2001) was a scientist, author, inventor, philanthropist, governmental adviser and pioneering entomologist in the study of ant biology. He was also Trustee Emeritus of the National Geographic Society.… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1943. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/No Jacket. Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated beige linen boards/NF w/light surface wear. DJ/None. Map to endpapers. PO name to fEP, dated 1943. A window to the Amazon valley. Text in 4 parts: I World Primeval; II, Pageant of Peoples;… Read more about this item

History and geography of the six South American nations that include the valley of the Amazon River, second longest (after the Nile) and greatest in volume.