France to Scandinavia: France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden [Carpenter's World Travels Series]
by Carpenter, Frank G. (Text and Photographs by)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- g to vg
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/4"). XIII, [3], 273, [1]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over gilt-, blue-, and purple-stamped cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Frontispiece. Title page in red and black lettering.
Splendidly illustrated throughout with 129 b/w photographic reproductions and two folded color maps, this book documents the European journey its author made in the early 1920s.
Author, photographer, lecturer and collector of photographs, Frank George Carpenter (1855-1924) was a writer of standard geography textbooks. His series of books called "Carpenter's World Travels" were extremely popular between 1915 and 1930.
Dust-jacket partly rubbed along edges, with minor closed tear at lower margin of back cover. Dust-jacket in overall good+, binding and interior in very good condition.
Splendidly illustrated throughout with 129 b/w photographic reproductions and two folded color maps, this book documents the European journey its author made in the early 1920s.
Author, photographer, lecturer and collector of photographs, Frank George Carpenter (1855-1924) was a writer of standard geography textbooks. His series of books called "Carpenter's World Travels" were extremely popular between 1915 and 1930.
Dust-jacket partly rubbed along edges, with minor closed tear at lower margin of back cover. Dust-jacket in overall good+, binding and interior in very good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42207
- Title
- France to Scandinavia: France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden [Carpenter's World Travels Series]
- Author
- Carpenter, Frank G. (Text and Photographs by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - g to vg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1923
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