Reminscences of My Fifty-Five Years in Chile and Peru (Signed copy)
by William Russell Young
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Hythe, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Valparaiso: Sociedad Imprenta y Litografia Universo, 1933. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. First edition. Hardback, bound in green cloth with gilt titling to upper board. 27 × 19cm, 83pp. A note re the publisher: publisher not stated, details taken from the University of Oxford's library entry. The memoirs of William Russell Young who spent fifty-five years in South America (Chile and Peru) working for, among others, the bank Huth & Co in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century. The memoirs seem to have been written down as they occurred to him but are vaguely chronological, and talk about the society, sports, events, weather etc. Condition: Fair condition. There is a heavy water stain to the front and rear board running from the top. The inner binding is a little pulled in places and the pages tanned, however, it remains in strong readable condition.
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- Bookseller
- Cox and Budge Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014406
- Title
- Reminscences of My Fifty-Five Years in Chile and Peru (Signed copy)
- Author
- William Russell Young
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Sociedad Imprenta y Litografia Universo
- Place of Publication
- Valparaiso
- Date Published
- 1933
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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