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Lawrence, Joe (Jr.) & Brucker, Roger W.
The Caves Beyond.
Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company for the National Speleological Society, New York;
Date of Publication: 1955
Stock Code: 7059
FIRST EDITION. Large octavo, pp. xii, 283. Frontispiece; numerous plans and illustrations throughout text. Publishers’ green cloth with black titles and decoration in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth clean and bright. Small pink mark to ffep with “E1” inscribed next to it otherwise contents clean; no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket nicked and creased with small loss at spine tips; rear white panel lightly toned. A Near Fine copy in Good jacket. The story of the best-equipped expedition in the history of American cavern exploration in to the depths near Crystal Cave, Kentucky, where Floyd Collins met his death. Scarce, particularly in dust-jacket. £40.00