Seven League Boots [VINTAGE 1937]

Halliburton, Richard

Published by Garden City Publishing Co, New York, 1937

About this Item

Fine condition navy blue textured cloth boards with silver front cover and spine lettering, contained in a very good condition color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; List of Other Books by Richard Halliburton; Introduction: Seven League Boots. Illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates, a black-and-white portrait plate frontispiece, and map illustrated front and rear endpapers. The upper jacket spine edge is chipped and some scattered additional light wear at the jacket edges (see photographs). All pages are in fine condition and the binding is exceedingly tight and square (see photos). The verso of the first free front endpaper contains a vintage March 9, 1940 neatly scripted penciled gift inscription. "In the tracks of Hannibal he rode his elephant over the Alps, through the eight-thousand-foot Great St. Bernard Pass - because he thought it would be amusing. This preposterous, extravagant journey, the grandest and most original of all Halliburton adventures, caused a sensation throughout Europe. Annihilating distance with his Seven League Boots, Halliburton strode to Ekaterinburg, in Siberia. Here he found one of the chief assassins who had carried out the massacre of Czar Nicholas II and all six members of his family. Under extraordinary circumstances the assassin, half dead from a throat malady, revealed to the author the complete and final truth about this world-famous tragedy. Not one smallest detail was withheld. The reckless confession of the dying Bolshevik, the elephant-ride over the Alps which astonished the world in general and the Italian army in particular, are but two of the exciting episodes in the recent travels of this incurable seeker after romantic adventure. Richard Halliburton is incapable of writing a dull page, and in this book he reports each of his new adventures with the same contagious zest, the same charm and swing and dash that have won such unrivalled popularity for his other tales. Seven League Boots is Richard Halliburton at his superb best - we recommend it unreservedly to all Mr. Halliburton's old admirers and envy those about to meet him for the first time in these pages." - from the inner front jacket flap. Seller Inventory # 004820

Bibliographic Details

Title: Seven League Boots [VINTAGE 1937]

Publisher: Garden City Publishing Co, New York

Publication Date: 1937

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good