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Mexico by HOLMES, Burton (editor) - 1939

by HOLMES, Burton (editor)

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Mexico by HOLMES, Burton (editor) - 1939

Mexico

by HOLMES, Burton (editor)

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Chicago: Wheeler Publishing Company, 1939. Hardcover. Text by Carlos Castillo. Illustrations by Holmes. Small 8vo. Red cloth with yellow lettering and brown, green and yellow pictorial stamping. 440pp. Extensive illustrations, map and pictorial endpapers. Very good. Faintest of edgewear only. A tight, attractive first edition of this volume in "The Burton Holmes Travel Stories" series -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped facing the half-title page is an Autograph Quotation Signed from Holmes, 1p, 4 " X 4", Philadelphia, PA, November 1906. On a slip bearing a printed "The Bellevue-Stratford," the landmark Philadelphia hotel, he boldly pens in brown ink: "To travel / is to possess / the world / E. Burton Holmes.: Near fine. Holmes (1870-1958) was a pioneering American documentary filmmaker, travel lecturer, author and photographer who toured the world and presented his images and films to audiences from 1890 to 1958. A charming volume with handsome sentiment from the preeminent travel write of the first half of the 20th century.
  • Bookseller Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used
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  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Wheeler Publishing Company
  • Place of Publication Chicago
  • Date Published 1939

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Mexico

by Burton Holmes

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  • Hardcover
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Chicago: Wheeler Publishing Co. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Bumps, rubbing, heavy foxing, insect chew to front endpapers, ink name on the front endpaper. English language, b/w photos throughout, glossary. ; The Burton Holmes Travel Stories; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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