Jungle Peace
by Beebe, William; with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. [1926]. Softcover. Light creasing to lower corners of some leaves. 4mm loss along lower margin of dust-jacket. A couple of vertical creases to dust-jacket. ; No date [1926]. 1926 printing of a title first published in the Modern Library in 1925 (first published by Henry Holt in 1918). xi, [3], 297, [1 (blank)], [6 (advertisements)] pages. Green leatherette limp boards with gilt on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 162 x 103mm. Bernhard style endpapers. Typographic dust-jacket design. Modern Library torchbearer logo on dust-jacket spine, no Modern Library torchbearer logo on front panel of dust-jacket. Reverse of dust-jacket lists titles up to #125. Natural history of the jungles of Guiana. Contents: Jungle Peace; Sea-wrack; Islands; The Pomeroon Trail; A Hunt for Hoatzins; Hoatzins at Home; A Wilderness Laboratory; The Convict Trail; With Army Ants 'Somewhere' in the Jungle; A Yard of Jungle; Jungle Night; Index. [Reference: Toledano, "The Modern Library Price Guide 1917-2000" 2nd revised edition, 1999.] .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24897
- Title
- Jungle Peace
- Author
- Beebe, William; with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [1926]
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
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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