New Worlds to Conquer
by Halliburton, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929. Tales of South America by the adventurer Richard Halliburton (1900-1939), who became famous for, among other things, swimming the entire length of the Panama Canal. He aspired to the swash-buckling life; appropriately, he was lost at sea and presumed dead. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First Edition. Olive green cloth binding with gilt titles on the front cover and the spine. Clean text; 368 pages. Map as decorative endpapers. This copy has been SIGNED by the author on the FFEP, keeping company with a gifting inscription by a previous-owner. No dustjacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002489
- Title
- New Worlds to Conquer
- Author
- Halliburton, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1929
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...