Forbidden Journey: from Peking to Kashmir
by Maillart, Ella K
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Poor dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: William Heinemann. Good in Poor dust jacket. 1949. Hardcover. 7th impression, April 1949. [First printing was August 1937]. Xvi, 312 pages + frontis + fold-out map + 65 b&w illustrations. Red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Uneven fading to spine. No signatures. Minor foxing. Lower third of dustjacket spine missing. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000490
- Title
- Forbidden Journey: from Peking to Kashmir
- Author
- Maillart, Ella K
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Poor dust jacket
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Maillart Forbidden Journey Peking Tibet Kashmir In
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Poor
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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