Far East
by Beaton, Cecil
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- First
- Condition
- Very Good/Good Plus
- Seller
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Nobby Beach, Queensland
Item Price
$17.64
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About This Item
London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1945. 111pp, bw photos, drawings, col frontis. Or orange cloth with yellow title in jacket. Endpapers foxed, some light even toning throughout, slight fading at head and foot of spine. Jacket rubbed at folds and edges, 2 tears of approx 1", some tape reinforcement on verso. The author was sent to the Far East by the ministry of information to take photographs, and wherever he went he also made notes, of the places he visited, the sights he saw and the people he met. The result is this brilliant and authentic glimpse of India and China at war.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Plus. Illus. by Beaton, Cecil (photog). 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lawrence Jones
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003750
- Title
- Far East
- Author
- Beaton, Cecil
- Illustrator
- Beaton, Cecil (photog)
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket condition
- Good Plus
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- B. T. Batsford Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- Photography Beaton Asia Assam Burma Arakan India China Himalayas Military Art
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asia; Militaria;
Terms of Sale
Lawrence Jones
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Lawrence Jones
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Nobby Beach, Queensland
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- foxed
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