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I Married Adventure
by Osa Johnson
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1940 J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, PA. 1940. Hardcover. Edition/Printing not stated. Adventure on the spine and front board is in block print and not italics. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name on the half title page. Book Condition: Near Fine; light shelfwear with small fabric hole on the rear lower tip; small smudges on textblock bottom. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($3.50); light chipping to head; light wear to head, tail, and tips. Zebra striped cloth boards and spine in brown and white with brown title on spine and front board. Red tinted text block top. Pictorial endpapers. Clean internals. Internal hinges are sound and not split. 376 pp 8vo. The watchmaker's boy from Independence, KS meets the Santa Fe engineer's daughter from Chanute, KS and it begins a life and career filled with travel and exotic color. Martin was born to adventure road and when the married she married his destiny too. The marriage was always a-going, always a-seeing; home was to be a schooner in the South Seas, a raft in Borneo, a tent on safari, a hunt in the black Congo, sometimes a dash of Paris, interludes of an apartment on Fifth Avenue--but always a place to be going from. Long before there were safaris, movies, National Geographics, adventurers and explorers, there were the Johnsons filling in the void with stories and movies about a world way outside the US that opened people's eyes to nature and other peoples. This is the story of Martin and Osa Johnson and their adventures with camera and gun through the South Pacific and Africa in the 1920-1940 period. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. This is one of the nicest copies of this book I have ever listed.
Reviews
On Jul 28 2017, a reader said:
I saw the Johnsons present their travel movies when I was very young. My grandparents took me, and the book was on their shelf....now on mine. I love this book and have read it many times. The story of their romance is charming, and her courage at a young age is amazing. You may often see it in decorator/design magazines, because of the beautiful zebra print cloth cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016197
- Title
- I Married Adventure
- Author
- Osa Johnson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Co.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 1940
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- MARTIN JOHNSON, OSA Johnson, EXPLORERS, AFRICA, Borneo, CHANUTE Kansas, SAFARI MUSEUM, BIG GAME HUNTERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, PHOTOGRAPHY, MOVIES ON AFRICA, LAKE PARADISE, MT. KENYA, KENYA, Africa, Borneo, The Snark, Jack London,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography; African Matters;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
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About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Title Page
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- Cloth
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- Brodart
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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