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Monkeys in the hold / Mary Baird.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 8039
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baird, Mary, 1907- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voyages and travels.
- Amazon River.
- Peru.
- Genre:
- Travel writing.
- Physical Description:
- 138 pages : illustrations, plates, map ; 22 cm
- Production:
- Hailsham, Sussex, The Craftsman Printing Company Limited, 1961
- Place of Publication:
- [Sussex] : Mary Baird, 1961
- Notes:
- An account of the author's journey up the Amazon to Peru. With plates, including portraits, and a map.
- "[...]thanks to my mother's generosity and the co-operation of Mr. P. G. Hering of the Craftsman Press, Hailsham, the greater part of the text is included in this private edition."--page 13
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 8039: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Caroline F. Schimmel bookplate on front pastedown. Typescript paper tipped in, front free endleaf recto reads "Copies of this book [...] can be purchased from the author [...] Please do not write to the printers." Booth Steamship Co. Ltd. stamp on front free endleaf recto, half title, and on various pages throughout. With dust jacket.
- OCLC:
- 316194845
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