A BOOK OF ISLANDS
by John S Bowman
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket
- Seller
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York - first edition 1971 Hardcover, with dust jacket GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket Islands have always held a special fascination for man, and the adventure and intrigue which they seem to evoke are demonstrated in this anthology of short stories and excerpts from longer works of fiction. Included here: Daniel Defoe, Jules Verne, W Somerset Maugham, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Herman Melville and many others.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44513
- Title
- A BOOK OF ISLANDS
- Author
- John S Bowman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York - first edition
- Date Published
- 1971
- Pages
- 346 pages
- Keywords
- Melville Defoe Somerset Maugham R L Stevenson Conan Doyle Jules Verne Kipling Herman Melville Anthology Islands Fiction Nature John S Bowman
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McCrae, Victoria
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