Shah of Shahs
by KAPUSCINSKI, RYSZARD
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Red lettered quarter cloth with light grey boards. Book clean and bright throughout. Fold to top corner of page 83, and some sunning around the board edges, and the ownership signature of Canadian writer Greg Gatenby to top right corner of the front end paper. Light creasing to the dust jacket at the spine head, else about fine. First American edition. Translated from Polish by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand. Inscribed by Kapuscinski to Greg. Rare signed.
Synopsis
Shah of Shahs, published in 1982, is Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński's analysis of the decline and fall of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.
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- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 681
- Title
- Shah of Shahs
- Author
- KAPUSCINSKI, RYSZARD
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
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