Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1929). Early reprint. Very good+ in brown cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine and on the front board. A small quarto measuring 9 1/8 by 6 inches with map end sheets. The cloth at the very edges of the head and heel of the spine are very slightly rubbed and there is a prior owner's name stamped on the first free end page. Without its issued dust jacket. 368 pages of text illustrated with a photographic frontispiece of the author and with 68 black and white plates. Two chapters in this book are dedicated to the horrible conditions of prisoners on in the prisons of French Guiana and Devil's Island.

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Bookseller: Town's End Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TB28503
Title: New Worlds to Conquer
Author: Halliburton, Richard
Book Condition: Used
Edition: Early reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Place of Publication: Indianapolis
Date Published: (1929)

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Heel: The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
Quarto: The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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...