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Racing through paradise : a Pacific passage / William F. Buckley, Jr. ; photographs by Christopher Little.
LIBRA - Rare G530 .B9 1987 Frost copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008.
- Buckley, William F.
- Sealestial (Yacht).
- Pacific Ocean.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [1987]
- Summary:
- Chronicles the author's four thousand-mile sailing voyage across the Pacific with four close friends, his son Christopher, and a photographer.
- Notes:
- "First Edition."
- Includes index.
- Navy cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine; front cover has facsimile of author's signature in gold. Lining papers have oil painting by George Thompson of scrimshaw by David Lazarus.
- "Jacket design: Robert Aulicino."
- Local Notes:
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Frost Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Frost Collection copy has book mark from The Book Mark Inc., Oyster Bay, N.Y. laid in.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Buckley, William F. (William Frank), 1925-2008. Racing through paradise.
- ISBN:
- 0394557816
- 9780394557816
- OCLC:
- 14520878
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