The Coming Country
by Younghusband, Francis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Leicester, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: John Murray, 1928. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. First UK Edition. Publisher's purple boards with gold tolling to the spine and author and title blind-stamped to the front board. A near fine (or better) copy (with offsetting to both sets of end-papers) in like D/W priced 7/6 net to the spine and front cover (as called for). A particularly fresh-looking copy with the original D/W mostly intact: with the slightest of fraying to corners and tips of spine and a little loss (approx. 0.3 cm X 0.9 cm) at the bottom left of spine. Younghusband's spiritual vision of utopia (set in the Himalayas) in which he attempts to demonstrate how the fire of national consciousness or active love could transform first a city, then a whole country and, finally, through that country the whole World. Very scarce in this condition in D/W. Photographs/scans available upon request.
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Details
- Bookseller
- James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 355490720182
- Title
- The Coming Country
- Author
- Younghusband, Francis
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
Terms of Sale
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
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About the Seller
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
Biblio.com member since 2006
Leicester
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About James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
James M Pickard (Rare Books) is proud to be a full member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA).
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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