Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Ix, 349 Pp. Blue-Green Cloth With Salmon Paper Label On Spine, Map Endpapers. First Printing With 1931 Date On Title Page. Light Wear.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green cloth, edge wear, faded edges and spine. Rose colored title pastedown on spine. In edge worn, chipped and tattered DJ, with 1" x2" chip missing at lower spine of DJ, price clipped. Now protected in a mylar jacket. Map endpapers, frontispiece by Rockwell Kent. A memoir of the Patagonia from a New England sailor. ; Drawings; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 349 pages
Seller: Liberty Book Shop, Avis, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: viii, 349 pages. The Barretts were traveling through Patagonia when they met Chace (Of Taunton, Massachusetts and of Patagonia), a fearless adventurer. Book cover is quite sunned, with a couple very small faint stains on front; one corner lightly bumped. Some pages have light foxing at margins or gutter; page edges foxed. Pages 3-6 & 335-338 were crudely opened, so that there are rough tears/pieces missing from fore edges (does not affect text). Previous owner's name in pencil on half-title page. Dust jacket is price clipped; heavily toned, especially on spine; heavily chipped wtih pieces missing from extremities of spine and corners; tears along folds. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Tennyson Williams Books and Fine Art, Williamsburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$82.68 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: (i-viii), 349 pp. Turquoise cloth boards, w. colour very much faded on front & back. Stuck-on pink label title to spine, w. title printed in blk., (label faded at top rt-hand cnr). Colour completely faded on spine, and bumped top & btm but sound. Dust wrapper, w. title printed in black & line drg. Small portions missing at top of spine and at top & btm of front cover, split at rt-hand side of spine, chipped, some repaired tears, but basically complete. List of publisher's titles at rear. Map endpapers printed in green, (The Yankee's Patagonia at front; the Setting of the Yankee's Patagonia at rear). With frontispiece line drg., (Argentine gaucho), and introduction by Rockwell Kent. Authors' acknowledgement. Pencil inscription. Glossary and index at rear. A vivid picture of one of the last, still primitive frontiers.
Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom
Price: US$104.40 + shipping
Description: A YANKEE IN PATAGONIA, Houghton Mifflin, 1931, first edition, top and bottom margins of the covers as well as the spine somewhat lightened, else just about fine in a vg+ dust-wrapper save for some sunning to the dust-wrapper spine and upper and fore edge margin of the rear dust-wrapper panel as well as a stamp to the front dust-wrapper panel which states that this is published overstock and sold at a reduced price. The travels and trials of the authors upon meeting Edward Chace, a former New Englander now living in South America. Frontispiece, front cover illustration and introduction by Rockwell Kent.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed and inscribed by Edward Chace on blank at front: 'Edward Chace Taunton Mass Sept 12 - 1931.' A good copy in original light green cloth, paper spine label (spine faded with tears, spine label has staining and wear; foredges of boards have heavy wear). Notable biography of the American explorer and permanent resident of the pampas; includes a 2-page introduction by Kent (in addition to his frontispiece portrait), plus a Spanish-English glossary and an index at rear. 'Plates made in Great Britain / Printed in the U.S.A.' (title page verso).Kent, Rockwell (illustrator); 1 b/w Illustration (frontispiece); 2 Maps (endpapers; green/white). viii, [2], 349 pages.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$148.14 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original cloth with paper labeled plate to spine. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 349 pages; Description: viii p., 1 l., 349 p. front. 23 cm. Subject: Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) -- Description and travel. Chace, Edward. 0 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition with 1931 on the title page. Frontispiece by Rockwell Kent. VG+/VG- in bluish-green cloth with leeching to the edges and bright red paper label on spine. In a chipped and worn dustjacket with Rockwell Kent drawing of an Argentine gaucho on the front panel. Scarce in dustjacket which is price-clipped. First Edition with 1931 on the title page.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$172.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original cloth with paper labeled plate to spine. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 349 pages; Description: viii p., 1 l., 349 p. front. 23 cm. Subject: Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) -- Description and travel. Chace, Edward. 0 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.