Salween
by Kaulback, Ronald
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- Hardcover
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Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1939. First American edition. 8vo. (12), 331 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, line drawing vignettes as chapter head-pieces, large folding map at rear. "The full account of an eighteen months' search in South Eastern Tibet for the source of the Salween â the black river of Tibet." Owner's large pencil initials on endpaper, some foxing, else very good. Original rose cloth (old light tideline at base of spine), gilt spine title, 3-color illustrated dust jacket (price-clipped, rumpled around the edges). (#8446).
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- Bookseller
- Bartlebys Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61373
- Title
- Salween
- Author
- Kaulback, Ronald
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
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About Bartlebys Books
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