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First Russia Then Tibet.
by BYRON, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd,, 1933. First edition, first impression, in the usual remainder binding and Macmillan's Miscellany dust jacket. "This book is made up of two separate travel narratives; one of Russia and the other of Tibet (the trade route to Gyantse from Sikkim at the end of the 1920s)" (Yakushi). With typical panache, Byron contrasts post-revolutionary Russia with pre-industrial Tibet. Byron's account was first issued in dark green smooth cloth with a gilt top edge and a pale grey pictorial dust jacket depicting "A Tile of Yaroslavl". First issue copies are extremely scarce. Octavo. Original green coarse cloth remainder binding, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Coloured frontispiece, 24 half-tone plates from the author's photographs. 1943 pencil gift inscription on front free endpaper. Cloth bright, a little skinning on front pastedown, a few small stains to edges, plates lightly toned; jacket toned and soiled with a few chips and nicks, small loss to spine, flaps without price as issued: a very good copy in like jacket. Yakushi B315.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 164349
- Title
- First Russia Then Tibet.
- Author
- BYRON, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd,
- Date Published
- 1933
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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