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On The Banks of the Amazon

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Five Books by P.G. Wodehouse including "Do Butlers Burgle Banks?" "The Cat-Nappers," "No Nudes Is: Five Books by P.G. Wodehouse including "Do Butlers Burgle Banks?" "The Cat-Nappers," "No Nudes Is Good Nudes," "The Return of Jeeves," and "The Brinkmanshi

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Item Details

Description

or A Boy's Journal of his Adventures in the

Tropical Wilds of South America'.

First edition.

Full-leather with gilt armorial crest.

Morocco gilt title, gilt raised bands and

decorative gilt panel vignettes to spine.

Marbled endpaper and page-blocks.

Frontispiece + full-page in in-text illustrations.

Spine has been re-inforced.

Sporadic foxing.

A very beautiful copy.

Publisher

T. Nelson & Sons., London

Author

W. H. G. Kingston

Date Published

1876

Binding

Leather

Condition

Very Good

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