The Tail of the Hemisphere: Chile and Argentina
by Carpenter, Frank G
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed, pages toned, jacket tattered.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed, pages toned, jacket tattered.. 1923. Hardcover. Printed for The Chatauqua Institution as a volume in The Chatauqua Home Reading Service series. Brown cloth with titles and design stamped on front boards and spine in black. Many black and white photos. xiv, 298 pp, index, bibliography. One of the prolific travel writers volumes, in which Carpenter describes almost every square mile of the two southernmost republics, Chile and Argentina...You see the people, learn their history, marvel at the almost unbounded storehouse of their natural resources. (from front jacket panel). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38360
- Title
- The Tail of the Hemisphere: Chile and Argentina
- Author
- Carpenter, Frank G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed, pages toned, jacket tattered.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- 1920s South America, CHILE, ARGENTINA, 1920s Travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Adventure; Latin America & the Caribbean;
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Old Saratoga Books
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Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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