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Eastward To Tartary
by Robert D Kaplan
Robert D. Kaplan is chief geopolitical analyst for Stratfor, a private global intelligence firm, and the author of fourteen books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate; Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power; Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History; and Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos. He has been a foreign correspondent for The...
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An Account Of the Kingdom Of Caubul, and Its Dependencies In Persia, Tartary, and India
by Mountstuart Elphinstone
History Of Civilizations Of Central Asia
by A H Dani V M Masson B a Litvinsky M S Asimov C E Bosworth
Central Asia Books & Ephemera
Jihad : The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
by Ahmed Rashid
Penguin Publishing Group, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$6.88
Where The Gods Are Mountains Three Years Among The People Of The Himalayas --- 1956 FIRST EDITION
by Rene von Nebesky-Wojkowitz
New York: Reynal And Company, 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1956 FIRST EDITION. Original green cloth with dark red lettering front and spine. The book has clean covers with no fading, minor bump lower front corner, minor bump lower outside front corner, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, tiny fore-edge foxing spots but no foxing on page faces, solid binding. The original dust jacket has loss at spine corners, 25mm tear lower front, 5mm tiny tears top edge rear cover,...
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$25.00
JOURNEY TO KHIVA
by Glazebrook Philip
Harvill, 1992. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback, a very good copy in a very good bright dust wrapper, signature of previous owner on front free endpaper, 275pp, ISBN:0002726718.
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$5.74
The New Zealand Alpine Journal 1961 volume XIX number 48
by J. G. Wilson (editor)
London: New Zealand Alpine Club, 1961. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Printed Wrapper. Fine/No Jacket Issued. The 1961 issue of the New Zealand Alpine Journal. Original bluish grey wrappers with black lettering front & spine & rear. Clean covers, solid binding, no rubbing, sharp corners, no foxing, no owner writing or marks on pages, complete. The journal has 192 + ads at the front, loose folding map (as issued), many b/w photos including a multi-page foldout panorama. PHOTO IS OF THE ACTUAL BOOK...
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$10.00
Kashmir. A Holiday In The Happy Valley
by Swinburne, T. R
New Dehli: Sagar Publications, 1970. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Nice 1970 reprint of the original 1907 edition with all of the color plates well reproduced as well as a nice reproduction of the color folding map. Black cloth with yellow lettering spine. 225mm tall x 140mm, 342 pages, 24 colored plates of illustrations, folding color map. Some of the spine lettering has flecked away otherwise the book is in very good condition, "acc. no. 16" penned to verso of title page otherwise no...
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Storm and Sorrow In The High Pamirs -- 1977 FIRST EDITION
by Craig, Robert W
New York: The Mountaineers with The American Alpine Club, 1977. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket Issued. 1977 FIRST PRINTING of First Edition. Original paperback binding (the first edition was only in paperback). Some rubbing along the spine edges and cover edges, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing, solid binding, complete with all pages and photos. The book measures 207mm tall x 129mm, 171pp, 16 color plates, several b/w illustrations and maps. PHOTOS ARE...
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$25.00
The Ascent Of Mount Stalin -- FIRST EDITION in Dust Jacket
by Romm, Michael
London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1936. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. FIRST PRINTING of First UK Edition. Original blue cloth covers, light gray cloth spine with blue title block. The book is in near fine condition with tiny former owner mountain bookplates on front pastedown, no other previous owner marks or writing on any pages, slight fading to spine, clean, no foxing, tight binding. The rare dust jacket has loss of the top 4cm of the spine (that missing area now loosely...
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$195.00
VICTORY OVER K2 Second highest peak in the World
by Desio, Ardito
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1956. First Edition . Hardcover. Poor/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST PRINTING of First USA Edition. Original blue coated boards with white and light blue lettering spine. Ex-library with usual library marks and pocket. The book is very worn around edges, has a 3cm split at top front of spine, has a big part of the title page missing. All pages (other than the missing part of the title page) are present as are all of the photo plates....
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$10.00
TIBETAN VENTURE In the Country of the Ngolo-Setas, Second Guibaut-Liotard Expedition
by Guibaut, André
London: John Murray. Very Good. 1949. Hardcover. Light dampstaining to one corner of boards as well as first and last few pages; 8vo; 206 pages .
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$38.00
Trespassers on the Roof of the World : The Secret Exploration of Tibet
by Peter Hopkirk
Kodansha America, Incorporated, 1995. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$7.48
TIBETAN VENTURE In the Country of the Ngolo-Setas, Second Guibaut-Liotard Expedition
by Guibaut, André
London: John Murray. Very Good-. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards lightly soiled. Light foxing to edges. Small stamps to first few pages. Former DJ-flap with text tipped in on front endpaper. Otherwise internally VG+ with binding tight; 8vo; 206 pages .
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$38.00
Through The Unknown Pamirs -- The Second Danish Pamir Expedition 1898-99
by Olufsen, O
New York: Greenwood Press, 1969. Reprint . Hardcover. As New/No Jacket Issued. HARDCOVER 1969 reprint. Original brown cloth boards with gilt lettering spine. The book is in new condition with no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no rubbing, no foxing, clean, tight binding. This edition was not issued with a dust jacket (= no copy of this edition has a publisher's dust jacket). This book was acquired directly from the publisher and kept in climate controlled storage for years. The book...
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$35.00
Beyond the Caspian - A Naturalist in Central Asia
by Carruthers, Douglas
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. Good with no dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library labels and markings. Hinges weak. Corner clipped from front free endpaper and frontispiece. Lacking the dust-jacket. ; xx, 290 pages + colour frontispiece + 6 colour plates + 18 black-and-white illustrations on 15 plates (1 double-page) + colour folding map. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 216 x 139mm. Includes a 17 page Bibliography. [Reference:...
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$45.00
JIHAD: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia.
by Rashid, Ahmed
New Haven, CT:: Yale University Press,, (2002). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. ) A study of the five Central Asian republics - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan - which were part of the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991. Although rich in both cultural heritage and natural resources - including massive oil reservoirs - Central Asia remains desperately poor and frighteningly volatile. Religious repression,...
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$19.50
CATALOGUE OF MAPS PUBLISHED BY THE SURVEY OF INDIA -- CORRECTED UP TO 1ST JULY 1924
by Colonel E. A. Tandy (under the direction of)
Calcutta: The Survey Of India, 1924. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good/No Jacket Issued. Original printed wrappers with red cloth spine. This is the catalogue updated and corrected to July 1924 as printed, but hand updated/corrected in fine red pen to 11 December 1925. The book is large format measuring 332mm tall x 250mm. It has 61 pages and many index maps including two folding ones. One index map shows Mt Everest, Makalu and Gauri Sankar with printed elevations 29002 feet, 27790 feet, and 23440 feet...
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$175.00
Through The Heart Of Asia. Over the Pamir To India -- 1889 FIRST UK EDITION
by Bonvalot, Gabriel
London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1889. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Albert Pepin. 1889 FIRST PRINTING of First UK Edition. Original dark green cloth, white and green illustration framed in gilt front cover of each volume, gilt lettering spine with end rules, debossed rules front covers colored in black, debossed publisher emblem rear of each cover, original green coated EPs. Better condition that what is usually found for this book. Clean covers, rubbing tips of corners, bright cover...
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$1,350.00
The Thunder Dragon Kingdom A Mountaineering Expedition To Bhutan -- 1988 UNCORRECTED PROOF of First UK Edition
by Berry, Steven K
Ramsbury & Seattle: Crowood Press and Cloudcap, 1988. First Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1986 PROOF COPY of First Edition (jointly published by Crowood and Cloudcap). WITH loose handwritten note by UK publisher to the USA publisher, and with partial invoice for the publishing costs. Uncut text gatherings (two sheets per gathering, each sheet having 4 leaves). Pages not numbered, but spines of gatherings are numbered (1...
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$45.00
![Bol'shevikam Pustyni i Vesny. [To the Bolsheviks of Desert and Spring]. Verses.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/115/501/1383501115.0.b.jpg)
Bol'shevikam Pustyni i Vesny. [To the Bolsheviks of Desert and Spring]. Verses.
by Lugovskoy, V
One of 5 000 copies printed.
The collection of verses was created by a poet Vladimir Lugovskoy (1901-1957) in 1930, after his trip to Turkmenia (Turkmen SSR, Central Asia). The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic was established in 1924. The Bolshevik's policy sparked a rebellion in Turkmenistan, and in 1927 the Soviets lost control of the republic. Only in 1932 the main instigators were executed. During the forced policy of collectivization, traces of the nomadic lifestyle were destroyed, and the... Read more about this item
The collection of verses was created by a poet Vladimir Lugovskoy (1901-1957) in 1930, after his trip to Turkmenia (Turkmen SSR, Central Asia). The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic was established in 1924. The Bolshevik's policy sparked a rebellion in Turkmenistan, and in 1927 the Soviets lost control of the republic. Only in 1932 the main instigators were executed. During the forced policy of collectivization, traces of the nomadic lifestyle were destroyed, and the... Read more about this item
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$320.00
Beyond the Caspian : A Naturalist in Central Asia
by Carruthers, Douglas
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. 0896582647 . Pencil marginalia. Yellow highlighting on a couple of pages. Tears to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket has been laminated in clear plastic. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; xx, 290 pages + 6 colour plates (including frontispiece) + 18 black and white illustrations on plate leaves (1 double page) + 1 colour map. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and...
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$65.00
Before the Baigue. Photography.
Gelatin silver print. Rare.
The photograph captures a group of men before a baigue, which is one of the oldest and widely practiced forms of horse racing among Turkic people. Baigue involves riding across rugged terrains for long distances (in the past, ranging from 5–15 km and sometimes exceeding 50 km), where the rider's tactical skill plays a crucial role. Its origin is rooted in the nomadic way of life and the need to train horses for long journeys. Today, baigue races are conducted at... Read more about this item
The photograph captures a group of men before a baigue, which is one of the oldest and widely practiced forms of horse racing among Turkic people. Baigue involves riding across rugged terrains for long distances (in the past, ranging from 5–15 km and sometimes exceeding 50 km), where the rider's tactical skill plays a crucial role. Its origin is rooted in the nomadic way of life and the need to train horses for long journeys. Today, baigue races are conducted at... Read more about this item
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$180.00
To Kiss High Heaven Nanda Devi
by Languepin, J.-J
London: William Kimber, 1956. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. FIRST PRINTING of First UK Edition. The book is in near fine condition with clean covers, no fading, very minor rubbing tips corners, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing, tight binding. The uncommon dust jacket is much better than average for this book where nearly all have faded spine. This jacket has light to medium spine fading, surface flecking at spine ends, clean and complete. Very...
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$625.00
Khiva. Collection of photos.
This collection of photos includes depictions of views from Khiva, the capital of the Khanate of Khiva, and the palaces of the Khiva khans, including the alley near Nurullaboy Palace and the pool. Additionally, the collection features images with the traces of what might have been a prison, possibly for women along with their graves, the local people crossing the Shavat canal, musicians at a party, and various other scenes portraying the everyday life of the local population.At least one of these photos...
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$1,500.00
In Exile from the Land of Snows: the First Full Account of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetans Since the Chinese Conquest
by Avedon, John F
NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered.. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394518179 . Index, bibliography, notes, many pages of photographs, some in color. Map endpapers. Cloth-backed boards. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 383 pages .
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$15.00
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Race for Lhasa
by Peter Hopkirk
Paperback. Very Good.
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$9.03
