Some men lead lives of such rare intensity that they disappear into the mists of their own legend. Such a man was Richard Halliburton - Dreamer -Traveler - Poet - Bon Vivant and doomed to die. "Seven League Boots" was his fifth and last book, and details his epic adventures in a variety of remote places. "I had been commissioned to go anywhere in the world I wished and write whatever pleased me. My only orders were to move fast, visit strange places, to meet whomever was interesting - and to start at once," Halliburton ...
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Some men lead lives of such rare intensity that they disappear into the mists of their own legend. Such a man was Richard Halliburton - Dreamer -Traveler - Poet - Bon Vivant and doomed to die. "Seven League Boots" was his fifth and last book, and details his epic adventures in a variety of remote places. "I had been commissioned to go anywhere in the world I wished and write whatever pleased me. My only orders were to move fast, visit strange places, to meet whomever was interesting - and to start at once," Halliburton wrote. His subsequent book illustrates how he followed these orders with passion and abandon. America's favorite adventure writer dined with Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia, interviewed the infamous assassin of Czar Nicholas II in Russia, tried to sneak into the forbidden city of Mecca, and finally, rode an elephant over the Alps in the tracks of Hannibal. It is Halliburton at his best, reckless and romantic, and it is the last chapter of a life grown tragic. Incapable of writing a dull page, Halliburton nevertheless was a captive of his own press. His insatiable readers demanded ever more death-defying accounts. Nearing forty, physically exhausted, and in financial trouble, Halliburton thought to roll the dice once again, hoping that the charm which had always saved him in the past would materialize one more time. It didn't! Soon after finishing this book, the intrepid traveler ignored the warnings of seasoned sailors and set sail on the ship that would take him away from his book-hungry public and into the arms of a watery death. This, his final book, is the ink-stained headstone of Halliburton's amazing life.
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Add this copy of Seven League Boots to cart. $41.00, good condition, Sold by Chapter 1 Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA, published 1935 by Bobbs-Merrill.
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Acceptable. Signed Copy First edition copy. Collectible-Acceptable. Book Good. No dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by author on frontis verso, with signed and inscribed photo of the author laid in. (travel, adventure, exploration, explorer, memoir)
Add this copy of Seven League Boots to cart. $50.00, very good condition, Sold by Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Springfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1935 by Bobbs-Merrill Company,.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Black and white photographs. No indication of printing. INSCRIBED by the author in 1936. Very good in a very good (edge worn with several small chips, a bit faded along the spine) dust jacket.
Add this copy of Seven League Boots to cart. $97.75, Sold by John K. King Used & Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Detroit, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1935 by The Bobbs-Merrill Co. : Indianapolis, IN.
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1935, The Bobbs-Merrill Co. : Indianapolis, IN
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The Bobbs-Merrill Co. : Indianapolis, IN
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1935
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Photos, 9.25 x 6.25", blue cloth, 417pp, covers a bit rubbed and spotted, extremities fraying, hinges loose, pp toned, in a chipped, rubbed and spine-sunned dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, RICHARD HALLIBURTON.
Add this copy of Seven League Boots Signed By Author to cart. $125.00, good condition, Sold by Becker's Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Houston, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1935 by Bobbs-Merrill.
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Good in Good dust jacket. Originally priced at $3.50/signed by author on title page/blue cloth with gold lettering on front and spine/mottling on entire; 417 pages; Cloth spine/color illustrated dust jacket of man riding elephant near mountains/jacket in mylar/side book edge slightly soiled/slight chip tears at top spine; Signed by Author.
Add this copy of Seven League Boots to cart. $150.00, very good condition, Sold by M. W. Riggs Bookseller, ships from Pocahontas, AR, UNITED STATES, published 1935 by Bobbs-Merrill.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Signed by Author(s) 417 pages. Text tight and clean. Blue cloth binding with silver lettering on the front and on the spine. Orange DJ in a cover. DJ does have a few chips around the edges. SIGNED. It does have a library bookplate neatly on the inside of front cover, no other stampings. It does have a lot of B/W plates.
