The Making of Pakistan
by SYMONDS, Richard
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 1950.. First edition. 8vo. 227, (1) pp. Publisher's red cloth, dust jacket affixed to the book at the flaps, ex libris Chelsea College of Physical Education with a few of their markings. Printed college envelope mounted to the front free endpaper containing a five page letter dated July 1950 from a Chelsea College post graduate student of the name Razia S. Birlas[?], who also signs off as an official of the University of the Punjab, Lahore. Map frontispiece. Jacket is edge worn with small losses, else very good. The handwritten letter gives the address of Chelsea College as "Denton Road, Eastbourne" and it is openly addressed to "Dear Readers...". In the letter he highly praises the book and the effort he thinks the author took to provide what he considers an impartial description of the turbulent start to Pakistan's independence. He closes: "I hope to recommend the book to all the libraries in Pakistan"
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bow Windows Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44931
- Title
- The Making of Pakistan
- Author
- SYMONDS, Richard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Faber and Faber
- Date Published
- 1950.
- Keywords
- Travel Pakistan
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About Bow Windows Bookshop
Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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