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London: Lutterworth Press, 1951. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Lacking DJ, ex-library, else VG..
Wall of Spears: The Gobi Desert by Mildred Cable and Francesca French - 1951
by Mildred Cable and Francesca French
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Wall of Spears: The Gobi Desert
by Mildred Cable and Francesca French
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Lutterworth Press, 1951. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1951. First Edition. 178 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.
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- Date Published 1951
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Wall of Spears: The Gobi Desert
by Cable, Mildred & French, Francesca
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Wall of Spears - The Gobi Desert
by Cable, Mildred & Francesca French
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London: Lutterworth Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1951). First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 178, [2 (blank)] pages. Red boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 197 x 130mm. Maps on endpapers. Illustrations by Joan Kiddell-Monroe. "There is always danger in the Gobi, that enormous desert which, because it is cut off from the world by many obstacles, the Chinese call Wall of Spears. But Mildred Cable and Francesca French lived there for many years, and their book is full of storis about desert demons, and brigands, and the Great Wall of China, and the Summer Palace of the Kings of Gobi, and about the caravans which crawl along the Old Silk Road from Sian to the Russian border. Strange people cross the desert, to buy silk carpets from Kashgar, or blacks of jade from Khotan, or to look for dinosaur eggs: Mongols, Tibetan lamas, Qasaqs, Chinese…
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