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First edition, first printing, 93 pp., Hardcover, very good in a lightly chipped and age-toned dust jacket. -If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.
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Good. Size: 0x0x0; A rare copy of this book. Binding tight. Pages not marked by notes or highlighting. Some dings to the corners and spine. A nice copy. Your Satisfaction Guaranteed. We ship daily.
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First edition. 93pp. Illustrated with 18 plates. Yellow cloth printed in brown. Spine ends lightly worn, very minor general shelfwear, else a near fine copy. Lacking dust jacket. Traces this experiment in transportation from its inception in the mind of Edward Fitzgerald and Jefferson Davis, through the procuring and transporting of the camels, and on to the myths surrounding the whole episode.
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Small 4to. Yellow cloth with brown lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 93pp. Illustrations, map endpapers. Near fine/good only. Jacket quite edgeworn, with many edge chips. Tight, nice first edition of this tale of a bizarre 1857 attempt to bring camels to California on a route through Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Handsomely signed and inscribed by the author in blue ballpoint on an inner flyleaf: "Compliments / of / Harlan D. Fowler / Christmas--1952." Laid in is a glossy pictorial 3¼" X 1½" "Joy at Christmas" gift tag on which he pens, "To / Netty and Stanley / From Dorothy--Harlan." Fowler (1895-1982) was a noted aeronautical engineer and inventor best remembered for the still-used Fowler flap. Signed copies of this title are quite uncommon.
