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Waters of the New World
by de Hartog, Jan
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Atheneum, 1961. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Atheneum, 1961. Stated First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. Stated First Edition in clean original dust jacket. Clean blue-green boards with silver decoration, turquoise cloth spine with gold lettering and decoration. No fraying or wear. Slightest fading to board edges. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean map-illustrated endpapers. Drawings by Jo Spier. 276 pages. Dust jacket illustrated by Jo Spier is clean, not price clipped (5.95 on front inside flap), has very shallow chipping at spine ends (1/4") and tiny chip to one corner. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Remarkable voyage by the author on the full route of the Intracoastal Waterway, through the bayous of Louisiana to New Orleans, along the coast of Mississippi, Alabama and Florida to Apalachicola, across the Gulf to Clearwater, through the Florida jungle by way of the Caloosahatchee River and Lake Okeechobee to the heart of the mysterious Everglades; then up the East Coast, through the water-wilderness of Georgia and te Carolinas, up Chesapeake Bay, down Delaware Bay and through the creeks and lagoons of New Jersey to New York; finally up Long Island Sound to the Nantucket Island..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024632
- Title
- Waters of the New World
- Author
- de Hartog, Jan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Stated First Edition.
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- ADVENTURE, SAILING, NAUTICAL, JAN DE HARTOG, TRAVEL BY BOAT, INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY, FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel; ships/sailing/shipwrecks;
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Stanley, New York
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