Reveille for a Persian Village.
by Najafi, Najmeh; Hinckley, Helen (with); Massud, illustrator
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz, 1960. Reprint ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in good dustjacket), edges lightly foxed, some foxing top section first & last few pages, faint foxing reverse side jacket (flap square-clipped, chipping & few edge tears). 273 pp. A deeply moving account of how a young and beautiful Persian girl, the daughter of a great Persian family, has tried to alleviate the poverty and poor health in a native village. Najmeh Najafi writes with a simple dignity that underlines her modesty. Her first book, Persia Is My Heart, told of her break with traditions and her decision to study in America, in order to help her people. This very special book tells of the use to which she has put her studies: what she has achieved in the village of Sarbandan - a community of 1500 people not far from Tehran (now Iran). (1960 reprint edition: has dustjacket.).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22834
- Title
- Reveille for a Persian Village.
- Author
- Najafi, Najmeh; Hinckley, Helen (with); Massud, illustrator
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- biography, autobiography, society, empowerment, middle east, iran, persia
- Bookseller catalogs
- MIDDLE EAST;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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