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Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co, 1954. Jacket scuffed with edgewear. Boards have light wear. Bookplate on fep. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Libris.
Mountains in the Desert by Carl, Louis and Joseph Petit - 1954
by Carl, Louis and Joseph Petit
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Mountains in the Desert
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Garden City: Doubleday, 1954. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Very clean beige cloth boards with green title box, silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated with excellent full-page photographs. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, has tiny closed edge tears at top of spine, no chips. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Authors retrace the wanderings of the French Archeological mission which prospected the vast Tefedest mountain range of the Sahara from October 1949 to March 1950, encountering drought, dust, flood, snowstorms, and cantakerous camels. Fascinating reading. 8vo. Adventure.
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- Date Published 1954
- Keywords Adventure Travel Sahara Desert Exploration Tefedest Range
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Mountains In The Desert
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Doubleday & Co, 1954. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. No jacket. .
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Mountains In The Desert: Exploration and Adventure in the Tefedest Range of the Central Sahara
by Carl Louis and Joseph Petit
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New York: Doubleday & Co. Inc., 1954. Preface by Raymond Coche Chief of the French Mountaineering Mission to the Hoggar 1935. In the vast granite range of the Tefedest Massif in the Hoggar region of the Sahara, earlier French explorers had discovered the site of amazingly beautiful prehistoric drawings. The authors , two young French archeologists, along with a photographer, an artist and a few tempermental but charming natives were determined to rediscover the site. They achieved complete success but only at the espense of learning the ways of the desert. The story of their mission makes fascinating reading and has been written with contagious enthusiasm for the mysterious, desolate Sahara and a good-humored understanding of the people who inhabit it. Illustrated with maps, illustrations and b/w photos. Glossary of native words. Photographic price-intact dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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MOUNTAINS IN THE DESERT
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Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, 1954. 318 pages. Frontispiece illustrated with b/w plate. Further illustrated with 29 more plates in text, including maps. Pages v/g condition. Endpapers lightly worn. Beige cloth, Grey label, silver title. Dust jacket illsutrated in b/w on both covers. Yellow title. Edges show light wear. DJ not price clipped. VG+/VG+. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.
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