The Blind Horn's Hate
by Hough, Richard
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393054292
- ISBN 13
- 9780393054293
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1971 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 336 pp, color frontis of the Cape Horn foundering of the Oxnard of Boston, list of b&w illustration and maps, introduction; 1. Ferdinand Magellan; 2. 'I was the only man that might fo this exploit'; 3. Pedro Sarmiento; 4. 'Cape Hoorn...Rounded 8 p.m.'; 5. 'Foulweather Jack' Byron; 6. 'Hope Deferred, not Lost'; 7. The Fate of the Natives; 8. The Uttermost South today; select bibliography, index with b&w illustrations throughout. Includes the original Review Copy items: Norton's announcement, two ad plates: Ship with Kipling's quote, 'It's north you may run to the rime-ringed sun, or south to the blind horn's hate...' and The Oxnard of Boston by James G. Evans. First Edition, 1971. Price clipped. 1/2" closed tear to top edge rear panel dj. Foxed top text block edge, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black half-cloth with aqua paper covered boards, gilt lettering to spine, and maps on endpapers..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002081
- Title
- The Blind Horn's Hate
- Author
- Hough, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393054292
- ISBN 13
- 9780393054293
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- HISTORY MARITIME HISTORY EXPLORATION ADVENTURES IN THE UTTERMOST SOUTH CAPE HORNE THE BLIND HORN'S HATE
- Bookseller catalogs
- HISTORY;
- Size
- Large 8vo
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- Foxed
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- Tight
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