To The Walls Of Cartagena
by Dwight, Allan (Pen Name for Turner Allan Taylor and Lois Cole Taylor)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada
Item Price
£19.83£9.91
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About This Item
Williamsburg/New York: Colonial Williamsburg, . Distrubuted By Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc, 1967. To The Walls of Cartagena.... Illustrated by Leonard Vosburgh. This is the story of Greg Shelby's valient service as a Virginia soldier of the King in "The War of Jenkins Ear" and of his secret mission for his friend Jason Pollok, a merchant of Williamsburg. It is also a story of spies and scoundrels, of buccaneers and booty, of legendary lost treasure, and of courage, resolution, and loyalty of Greg to his King, his friends and his family. Two-page map spread.... The Plan of the Harbour, Town and Several Forts of Cartagena. Each of the thirteen chapters contain one full-page illustration by Leonard Vosburgh who is known to be a fine illustrator of historical and period subjects whose work is imaginative, exciting and historically accurate in every detail. The well- illustrated dust jacket carries his initials. Front board show three ships stamped in light blue. Initials of previous owner to ffep. A most respectable copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Gilt Edge Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B1648
- Title
- To The Walls Of Cartagena
- Author
- Dwight, Allan (Pen Name for Turner Allan Taylor and Lois Cole Taylor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Colonial Williamsburg, . Distrubuted By Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Williamsburg/New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- Virginia Regiment Fiction + Williamsburg + Historical Fiction + Spies Fiction + Lost Treasure + Spain + War of Jenkins Ear + Cartagena + NOISBN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sea Novels;
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
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- 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...