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Valverde's Gold: A True Tale of Greed, Obsession and Grit
by Honigsbaum, Mark
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0330491156
- ISBN 13
- 9780330491150
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
2004 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. Full number line* Date of Publication: 2005* Publisher: Pan Books* Binding and cover condition: Soft card illustrated covers. No bumps or rubs. Minor shelf wear to edges & corners. Slight creases & dish to spine but not to hinge. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No Annotations or inscriptions, no marks. Minor reading wear & slight tanning to fore edge. VG* Illustrations:1 x 8pp. Block of colour & b/w photos.* Pages: 342 pp. text. xii pp. Appendices, reading list, index & credits at rear.* Product Description:- In Valverde's Gold Mark Honigsbaum attempts to unravel a myth that has obsessed men for centuries and has led to many fruitless and fatal treasure hunts. Undeterred by this, and armed with a Victorian botanist's map, Honigsbaum embarks on an epic journey into the dark heart of South America. This is the story of how gold can intoxicate even the most mild mannered of historians, about how characters - both real and fictional - become seized with the desire to claim lost treasure from even the most inhospitable areas of the world. On his quest he meets a bizarre array of treasure hunters, profiteers and traffickers, all with an unquenchable thirst for the hoard that has eluded man for centuries.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st/1st with some shelf & reading wear reducing it to VG*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3485
- Title
- Valverde's Gold: A True Tale of Greed, Obsession and Grit
- Author
- Honigsbaum, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG+/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0330491156
- ISBN 13
- 9780330491150
- Publisher
- Pan
- Place of Publication
- London 368
- This edition first published
- February 4, 2005
- Size
- 19.6 x 12.4 x 2.6 cm
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