London: Cassell. Fair in Fair dust jacket. (1964). First Edition. Hardcover. An ex-library copy. Library stamps and markings. Lacking the front free endpaper and half-title page. Hinges taped. Edges of boards rubbed and worn. Adhesive tape stains to boards and endpapers. Dust-jacket flaps cropped, without loss of text but very close to the text. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; (iii)-xiii, [1], 257 pages + 26 illustrations on 8 plate leaves. 5 small maps (within the pagination). Blue papered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 210 x 139mm. An account of the Cambridge Trans-American Expedition, the first expedition to drive the length of the Americas. 40,000 miles over 17 countries. "A hot, wet, 200-mile walk through the roadless Darien isthmus took the party as far as dinner at the Panama Hilton [. . .]" - from dust-jacket blurb. .

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Seller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Seller's Inventory #: 18355
Title: Year With Three Summers
Author: Mackworth-Praed, Ben & Mike Andrews
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair in Fair dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Cassell
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: (1964)

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We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.

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