Balloon Travels Of Robert Merry And His Young Friends, Over Various Countries in Europe. Edited by Peter Parley (pseud. )
by [Goodrich, Samuel Griswold]
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Westmoreland, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
NY: Derby & Jackson. 1857. Hardcover. Spine incomplete at both ends, corners worn, internally about VG. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 312, 295 pages; Publisher's ornate embossed cloth with gilt spine, additional title pages and illustrations printed on yellow paper, spine title is Peter Parley's Book of Travels and Adventures. ** Osborne Collection, vol. 2 p.805: "The six copperplates show unusal `aerial views'. Five children and Mr. Merry fly from Boston to Europe in a `skittish' balloon." **Second title is: The Voyages, Travels, & Adventures of Gilbert Goahead, in Foreign Parts written by himself, and edited by Peter Parley. .
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- Bookseller
- Janet & Henry Hurley (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55525
- Title
- Balloon Travels Of Robert Merry And His Young Friends, Over Various Countries in Europe. Edited by Peter Parley (pseud. )
- Author
- [Goodrich, Samuel Griswold]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Derby & Jackson
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1857
- Keywords
- Childrens Books, Balloon, Juvenile
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile;
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About the Seller
Janet & Henry Hurley
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Westmoreland, New Hampshire
About Janet & Henry Hurley
Hurley Books was established by my father, Henry Hurley, in 1966. We have been shipping books through the mail for over 40 years with over 200 catalogs having been issued. Our bookshop contains well over 50,000 volumes with 17,000 +/- currently listed on Biblio.
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- VG
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- Cloth
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