My Life As An Explorer
by Hedin, Sven
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., 1925. Popular Edition. Full Leather. Fine. Sketches by Sven Hedin. Thick octavo, full leather, top edge gilt.
Handsomely rebound in full yellow-gold morocco by Kalmbacher of Toledo. Gilt spins with six raised bands, with a soaring crane giltstamped on the top cover, inner gilt rules. Reading travel books inspired the Swede, Hedin, to become an explorer. He became one in 1885 when he trekked through Russia, Persia, and Turkey. Later he went through the Gobi Desert to eastern China, and then into Tibet and the Himalayas. Sketches by Sven Hedin.
Handsomely rebound in full yellow-gold morocco by Kalmbacher of Toledo. Gilt spins with six raised bands, with a soaring crane giltstamped on the top cover, inner gilt rules. Reading travel books inspired the Swede, Hedin, to become an explorer. He became one in 1885 when he trekked through Russia, Persia, and Turkey. Later he went through the Gobi Desert to eastern China, and then into Tibet and the Himalayas. Sketches by Sven Hedin.
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0005088
- Title
- My Life As An Explorer
- Author
- Hedin, Sven
- Illustrator
- Sketches by Sven Hedin
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Popular Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Garden City Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- Mesopotamia, China, Himalayas, Tibet, Gobi Desert, Lhasa, Russia Persia, Turkey, mountaineering, Kalmbacher bindery
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About the Seller
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...