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Rascals in Paradise: True Tales of High Adventure in the South Pacific
by James A. Michener, A. Grove Day
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0394442202
- ISBN 13
- 9780394442204
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Random House, 1957 Random House, New York. 1957. Hardcover. Stated 7th Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name stamp on the FFFP. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to board edges; light foxing to top of spine and adjacent areas. DJ: Very Good +; Price Clipped; rubbing to panels; vertical fold in the front flap; light bumping to DJ top and bottom edges. Beige cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering in black shadowboxes on the spine; tropical house in gilt on front board. Maps as endpapers. 374 pp 8vo. In this book, Michener returns to the most dazzling place on Earth, the islands that inspired his book, Tales of the South Pacific. Co-written with A. Grove Day, this book offers portraits of ten scandalous men and women, some infamous and some overlooked, including Sam Comstock, a mutinous sailor whose delusions of grandeur became a nightmare; Will Mariner, a golden-haired youth who used his charm to win over his captors; and William Bligh, the notorious HMS Bounty captain who may not have been the monster history remembers him as. From lifelong buccaneers to lapsed noblemen, in the authors' capable hands these rogues become the stuff of legend. C clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016480
- Title
- Rascals in Paradise: True Tales of High Adventure in the South Pacific
- Author
- James A. Michener, A. Grove Day
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394442202
- ISBN 13
- 9780394442204
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1957
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- South Pacific, James A. Michener, A. Grove Day, Seafaring tales, bootleggers, mutineers, Captain Bligh, Sam Comstock, Tales of the South Pacific, South Pacific Islands, seafaring,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies;
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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