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Adventure South – Pan American Highway to Cape Horn, 1942, Illustrated, First Edition.
Adventure South – Pan American Highway to Cape Horn, 1942, Illustrated, First Edition.
  • Adventure South – Pan American Highway to Cape Horn, 1942, Illustrated, First Edition.
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Adventure South – Pan American Highway to Cape Horn, 1942, Illustrated, First Edition

Date
1942
Category
History & Americana
Record
S.I.10380

Adventure South, Three Men and a Lone Car Blaze The Pan American Highway Route Down Two Continents to Cape Horn! Richardson, Sullivan. 1942. Detroit: Arnold-Power Inc.

First-edition account of three men traveling by automobile south through two continents toward Cape Horn while helping pioneer the Pan-American Highway route. The narrative combines motoring adventure, overland travel, difficult terrain, local encounters, and the practical challenges of long-distance automobile exploration.

8vo.(6" x 9") 330 pp. lacking dust jacket. Full blue cloth with gilt lettering to upper board and spine. Printed endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, with small, loss to lower front tip. Two stains run vertically parallel to the fore-edge of upper board. Head and foot of spine ruffled with small closed tears and small loss of color. Prior ownership in three lines in pencil to first free flyleaf, in five lines in ink to half-title page. Minor light foxing(?) to pages before and after each photographic illustration. Some marginal finger smudges. Overall, a neat, clean book.

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