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GREAT VENTURE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1952.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Story writtten for young adults of the ill-fated attempt of the Scots to found a colony in Central America: New Caledonia, a story of heroism, of a young Scotch Laird and his friendship with a Guarani Indian boy, of sickness, pirates, and danger on land and sea. Illustrated with drawings by Christine Price. 239 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (dustjacket has a tape repair the upper edge, discoloration on flaps and endpapers from tape.) Contents are very clean, binding is tight. Back cover of dustjacket advertises Heinlein's The Rolling Stones.
Book ID: 33419More details Price: $25.00 -
BAJA CALIFORNIA AND ITS MISSIONS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Glendale CA: La Siesta Press, 1978. First edition - Includes sections on the Jesuit colonization, the Franciscan era, and Dominican period as well as on Native Americans today. Illustrated with maps and photographs. References, appendix. 96 pp. ISBN: 0-910856664.
Condition: Very near fine in stiff illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82937More details Price: $16.50
