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Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company 1929, 1929. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, hardcover, Green cloth covered boards, missing endpaper, light wear to boards else VG. 262 pages. First Edition. Dean's ancestor arrived in America from Morocco with a reformed pirate in 1740, and eventually settled in Philadelphia. 135 years later, at the age of 12, Harry Dean went to sea with his uncle, captain of a barkentine preparing for a round-the-world voyage. And thus begins a lifetime of adventure . recorded here with the help of Sterling North (North's first book, incidentally).
The Pedro Gorino. The Adventures of a Negro Sea-Captain in Africa and on the Seven Seas in his attempts to Found an Ethiopian Empire. An Autobiographical Narrative. WRITTEN WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF STERLING NORTH by (North, Sterling) Dean, Captain Harry - 1929
by (North, Sterling) Dean, Captain Harry
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The Pedro Gorino. The Adventures of a Negro Sea-Captain in Africa and on the Seven Seas in his attempts to Found an Ethiopian Empire. An Autobiographical Narrative. WRITTEN WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF STERLING NORTH
by (North, Sterling) Dean, Captain Harry
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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. First edition. 262 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth. FINE in yellow pictorial dust jacket, unclipped, open tear with loss (1/2 x 1-1/2) at top of back panel, else very fine. First edition. 262 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Sterling North's First book.
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- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication Boston and New York
- Date Published 1929
- Keywords American | Africa
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THE PEDRO GORINO The Adventures of a Negro Sea-Captian in Africa and on the Seven Seas in His Attempts to Found and Ethiopian Empire
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The Pedro Gorino: The Adventures of a Negro Sea Captain in Africa and on the Seven Seas in His Attempts to Found an Ethiopian Empire
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Literary Licensing, LLC, 2011. Hardcover. New.
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The Pedro Gorino: The Adventures of a Negro Sea Captain
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. VG- (tape at edge of one page in preface). Out of print and extremely scarce. Binding is cloth boards.
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The Pedro Gorino: The Adventures of a Negro Sea-Captain in Africa and on the Seven Seas in His Attempts to Found an Ethiopian Empire. An Autobiographical Narrative by Captain Harry Dean. Written with the Assistance of Sterling North
by DEAN, Harry and Sterling North
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. First Edition. Thick octavo (22cm.); original scarlet cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket; xvi,262pp. Dampstain at bottom edge of front cloth cover heavily affecting jacket verso with some bleeding to exterior of panel, general toning to spine, small paper flaw at top corner of upper jacket panel from removed label; contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Near Very Good, presentable copy.
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The Pedro Gorino: The Adventures of a Negro Sea-Captain in Africa and on the Seven Seas in His Attempts to Found an Ethiopian Empire, an Autobiographical Narrative
by Dean, Captain Harry & North, Sterling
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NY: Houghton Mifflin Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed on the fep by both Dean & North. Owner's name crudely written in pencil inside front cover. The book would grade as "fine" except for overall darkening, particularly the spine. ; 6x9"; Signed by Author .
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