Pageant of Adventure
by Thomas, Lowell
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1940. Essays on world travel, adventure, peril, and a little crime from the journalist & broadcaster, best remembered for popularizing Lawrence of Arabia. Stated second printing, SIGNED on the free endsheet by Thomas, with scarce wrap-around band publicizing that fact. Light wear to book; spine a bit foxed; jacket missing; 'autographed' band torn in half but mended with archival tape, now in a clear protector; ink name below Thomas's. Text clean; ix, [3], 284 pages + colophon. . Second Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Large Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- t0652
- Title
- Pageant of Adventure
- Author
- Thomas, Lowell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Publisher
- Wilfred Funk, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- Travel, Adventure, Journalism, Signed Books
- Size
- Large Octavo
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...