Mission to Tashkent by Bailey, Lt. Col. E.M - 2003

London UK, Folio Society, 1999, hardcover, burgundy cloth spine with beige illustrated boards, fine square tight unmarked unread copy, slightest rubs (if any) to cover extremities, 6""x9-3/8"", 269pp, very good slipcase, gift quality

Folio Society, 2003. Hardcover. Good. 2003. Fourth Printing. 269 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Pictorial paper covered boards with red cloth to spine with red slipcase. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Minimal tanning to spine and edges. Slipcase has light edgewear with minor marking to panels. Visible rubbing to surfaces. Small marks to panels.

London: The Folio Society. 1999. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine condition in a Very Good Slipcase. Illustrated with Black and White plates. 269 pages. Introduction and epilogue by Peter Hopkirk. Frederick Bailey's secret mission in 1918 to persuade the Russians to continue the fight against the Germans. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.

Jonathan Cape, 1946. Book. Good+. Hardcover. No jacket. Red cloth covers with gilt titles. Slight fading to spine. Black and white illustrations + folded map..

Hardcover. Good. Jonathan Cape, London, 1946, first edition; 8vo, 140mm x 204mm; pp 312; frontispiece and 22 further plates from photographs by the author; folding map of the route to Tashkent and another map of the area around the city; red clot titled gilt on the spine, there a little dulled, and with the English title in Cyrillic script gilt on the front cover; lacks the front free end paper, corners very slightly bumped but o verall clean and in good condition. ... ... ... ... ... Bailey was onn the Younghusband expedition to Tibet in 1903 and later spent many years travelling throughout the North West Frontier areas and the countries of the Roof of the World, the high regions of central Asia comprising the Pamirs, the Himalayas, the Tibet, or Himalayan, Plateau, the Tian Shan and the Altai mountains. In 1918, following the Russian revolutions, he went on a political mission to Tashkent, the largest city in the Emirate of Bukhara and later to become the capital of Uzbekistan, to seek to identify… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1946 8vo. original red cloth gilt (spine a little faded & spotted, else internally clean & bright); pp. 312, with 22 illustrations & 2 maps. A very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket.

London: Folio Society. 1999. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in boards in a Very Good+ slipcase. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall .

London: Folio Society. 2002. First Edition Thus; Third Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in boards in a Very Good+ slipcase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Jonathan Cape, 1946 VG+/VG. 8vo. original red cloth gilt (paperstock a little tanned, some marking) in dustwrapper (rubbed & frayed, spine a little sunned, rear panel toned); pp. 312, with 22 illustrations & 2 maps. A very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/VG.

London: Cape, 1946. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. orig. cloth 312pp., frontis., b/w pls., fldg. map, appends., index, Personal adventures in the ÔIntervention periodÕ. Author went to Chinese Turkestan in 1918 to forstall German attempts to create unrest and also to try to keep Russia in the War. Ownership signature o/w nice copy