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Seven Horizons
by Finger, Charles J
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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DeLand, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, & Company, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Good Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.
Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear, mild fading to the spine, edges rubbed with no breaks in the cloth. 457 pages with an index. 9.25 inches tall. Green buckram with printed color paper labels. Nicely illustrated with drawings, maps and photos. First Edition, First Printing.. A 'literary adventure-biography' relating world travels and the author's life. Finger was part of the literary circle that included Bernard Shaw, Cunningham Grahame and their group of young social philosophers.
Before beginning an adventure in Patagonia and Africa. The epitaph on Finger's gravestone is 'This voyage done, set sail and steer once more to further landfall on some nobler shore.'
Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear, mild fading to the spine, edges rubbed with no breaks in the cloth. 457 pages with an index. 9.25 inches tall. Green buckram with printed color paper labels. Nicely illustrated with drawings, maps and photos. First Edition, First Printing.. A 'literary adventure-biography' relating world travels and the author's life. Finger was part of the literary circle that included Bernard Shaw, Cunningham Grahame and their group of young social philosophers.
Before beginning an adventure in Patagonia and Africa. The epitaph on Finger's gravestone is 'This voyage done, set sail and steer once more to further landfall on some nobler shore.'
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- Bookseller
- Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA]
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008284
- Title
- Seven Horizons
- Author
- Finger, Charles J
- Format/Binding
- Good Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran, & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1930
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