OPENING THE OYSTER: A STORY OF ADVENTURE

by Charles Marsh

$85 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company, 1889. Octavo, tipped in frontispiece and illustrated title leaf, other illustrations in the text, original decorated brown cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold. First edition. Account of a five-year trip around the world by two men who leave New York City on foot without money or valuables and with only the clothes on their backs, a single change of underclothes, a few specified

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