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The Mapmaker: A Novel of the Days of Prince Henry, the Navigator
by SLAUGHTER, Frank G
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- hardcover
- First
- Condition
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- Seller
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Galena, Illinois
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1957. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt and silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 320pp. Map endpapers. Very good/very good. Faint binding edgewear; jacket edgeworn and a bit rubbed, with several small edge chips. A tight, attractive first edition of this historical fiction -- "A Novel," cites the jacket's snazzy front panel, "of a Great Navigator Who Sailed Fifty Years Before Columbus."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- Bookseller Inventory #
- 44200
- Title
- The Mapmaker: A Novel of the Days of Prince Henry, the Navigator
- Author
- SLAUGHTER, Frank G
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used
- Quantity available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date published
- 1957
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Maps; American Literature; Travel & Exploration;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts accepts most major credit cards and PayPal. Checks are welcome. Institutions will be accommodated as their procedures require. Every effort has been made to describe each book and any defects accurately. If an item proves unsatisfactory for any reason, it may be returned within seven days. We would appreciate a courtesy call if an item is being returned. Member ABAA, ILAB, MWABA, The Manuscript Society.
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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
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About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been serving book lovers, collectors and institutions since 1991. Our inventory of quality out-of-print books spans 50 subjects, while the extensive autograph holdings have a decidedly historical bent, reflecting personages from every field of human endeavor.
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- jacket
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- gilt
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