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ARABIAN SANDS
by THESIGER Wilfred
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1873544758
- ISBN 13
- 9781873544754
- Seller
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Dulverton, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Dubai: Motivate Publishing, 1996. 1873544758. Reprint 1996 signed by author on title page. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (small mark on fore edge - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover). Pp. 306, illus with b&w plates and maps (page edges lightly tanned; previous owner's bookplate on front free end paper).
Synopsis
"First published in Great Britain by Longmans, Green 1959, first published in the United States of America by E.P. Dutton 1959"--T.p. verso. "Reprinted with a second preface 1991"--T.p. verso. Includes index. "Gift, April 2007"
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140903
- Title
- ARABIAN SANDS
- Author
- THESIGER Wilfred
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1873544758
- ISBN 13
- 9781873544754
- Publisher
- Dubai: Motivate Publishing, 1996. 1873544758
- Place of Publication
- Dubai
- This edition first published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Travel
Terms of Sale
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Bookplate
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Fore Edge
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