Julian Messner 1969 Hardcover Very good jacket First Edition. Julian Messner, New York. 1969. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ex libris with usual library markings and paraphenia. Text is clean and unmarked. See photos. 100% of this purchase will support literacy programs through a nonprofit organization!

ISBN10: 0671320971, ISBN13: 9780671320973, [publisher: Julian Messner, New York:] Hardcover First Edition New York:: Julian Messner, 1969. A bright, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket's inner flap is price clipped. NO chips. NO tears. Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Bound in the original red cloth, stamped in black on the spine and front cover. History/biography for Young Adults. True story of Connecticut-born 18th-century sailor and explorer John Ledyard who pioneered the Alaskan fur trade. Based on Ledyard's own writings. From the front matter: "After sailing to Europe and North Africa, he signed on as a corporal of Marines for the last voyage of the great Captain Cook in 1776. Before Ledyard's mysterious death in the Egyptian desert, his dream led him through the courts of Europe, to the American wilderness and across the steppes of Russia." . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition/VG DJ (price clipped). Illus. by Kramer, Frank (jacket painting). 8vo. 191pp.
[Henderson, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1969]