Panama Canal

Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Doubleday. 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Bumping on rear panel top corner and top text block corner .

[Balboa Heights, C.Z.?]: n.p., 1962. Revised edition. Stapled paper wrappers. Stamped "Complimentary Copy" over the price else fine.. 16 pp. Illus. with color drawings and maps and b/w photos. 4to. Nice revised copy of an illustrated booklet first published in 1955 providing information on the Panama Canal.

NY: Doubleday & Company, 1913. 1st printing; maroon c w/white titles; Ernest Hallen illustrator; Frontispiece is a National Geographic color Bird's-Eye View fold-out by the J. N. Mathews Co. of NY. 386 clean, unmarked pages. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by color Fold-out Frontis; b/w Photos. 12 vo.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. Very Good in Poor dust jacket. 1913. 1st. Hardcover. Dust jacket has many chips and edgewear - protected in a mylar sleeve. ; Book is in Very Good condition - minimal signs of ex-library (stamps on front and rear inside covers) . Colored fold-out map Is in excellent condition. Profusely illustrated with photographs of details in the construction of the canal and the people involved. ; Ex-Library; B&W Photographs, Map & Illus.; Small 8vo... Read more about this item

Camden, New Jersey: The Long Photographic Art Studios, 1912. Very good. Inscribed by the author on the ffep. 12¼" x 9½". Blue cloth, gilt. pp. 43 + eight interspersed plates containing a map, a chart and six original photographs. Very good: light wear that is stronger at spine tips and corners, a few minor stains. This is a finely produced travelogue documenting the sites and peoples of several different Latin American countries. According to the book's forward, the author created it because, "The... Read more about this item

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1885. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth; bookplate; very good or a little better. The French began a sea level canal in 1880 but failed to complete the project, which required several additional decades of engineering expertise, political turmoil, intrigue, not to mention many thousands of lives.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. 386pp + 2pp of publisher's advertisements. Original brick red cloth stamped in white on the front panel and the spine. Foldout color frontispiece of the Panama Canal. Illustrated. Lettering on the spine and the front panel partially faded. A very good copy. ; Octavo.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. 1914. Hardcover. Good in boards. Edge wear. Soiling to front and rear panels. Binding visible in between front pastedown and end page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. Hardcover. 386p plus 2p advertisements. A dark red cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Edges minutely rubbed. Inscription on front free endpaper. Light stain on side of text block. Otherwise clean and tight. An account of the construction of the Panama Canal. Foldout color frontis. Illustrated with many black and white photographic plates by Ernest Hallen.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Octavo. Original rust colored cloth, 386 pages, 3 pages of ads at rear; frontis is a folding panoramic view of Panama. Illustrated from photographs taken by Ernest Hallen, Official Photographer of the Isthmian Canal Commission. A fine, brilliant copy.

Camden, New Jersey: The Long Photographic Art Studios, 1912. Very good. Inscribed by the author on the ffep. 12¼" x 9½". Blue cloth, gilt. pp. 43 + four interspersed plates containing a map, a chart and three original photographs. Very good: light wear that is stronger at spine tips and corners, a few minor stains. This is a finely produced travelogue documenting the sites and peoples of several different Latin American countries. According to the book's forward, the author created it because, "The... Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913 BEAUTIFUL BOOK, DARK RED COVER WITH LIGHT PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. SLIGHT WEAR LOWER SPINE, SMALL FADED SPOT LOWER FRONT. INSCRIPTION WHERE GIVEN AS GIFT INSIDE IN 1913 AT CHRISTMAS TO SISTER. FRONTISPIECE IS A VERY MICE COLOR FOLDOUT OF CANAL. PRIMARY BOOK PURPOSE IS TO TELL HISTORY OF THE CANAL. A ship canal, about 82 km (51 mi) long, crossing the Isthmus of Panama in the Canal Zone and connecting the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean. It was... Read more about this item