Fly Down Drive Mexico: A Practical Motorist's Handbook for Travel South of the Border
by David Dodge
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- Seller
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
6 Copies Available from This Seller
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About This Item
MacMillan, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Fascinating period-piece travel guide packed with handy information and travelling tips, still valid today. Contains special inserted booklet on orange paper covering the Olympics in Mexico City 1968, secured with a pink ribbon. All the motoring information you will ever need on Mexico, how to ask roadside directions in Spanish, and Spanish guide to motoring terms etc. Text is lively and witty. Motoring enthusiasts collector's item. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 6. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Travel & Places; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 8339. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8339
- Title
- Fly Down Drive Mexico: A Practical Motorist's Handbook for Travel South of the Border
- Author
- David Dodge
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 6
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- MacMillan
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- BZDB1 Travel & Places; David Dodge Fly Down Drive Mexico: A Practical Motorist's Handbook for Travel South of the Border
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About the Seller
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Biblio member since 2004
Katoomba, New South Wales
About Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
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