John Murray 1984. First edition, octavo, cream cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, x + 252pp, illus, VG (small 0.5 section of tanning to lower spine extrem, owner's name in blue ink to f.e.p., v slight soiling to upper page edges) in d/w, VG (v slight bruising to edges, v light soiling to inside)

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Title: Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
Author: HOPKIRK, PETER
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Murray 1984
Keywords: first edition Peter Hopkirk Central Asia Soviet Union politics Lenin foreign relations war history

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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...
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