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A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush
by Newby, Eric
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Llandudno, Conwy, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Popular Book Club, London, 1958. Book Club Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1958 The Popular Book Club Edition: 246 pages, illustrated b/w photos, maps. Shelf wear spine sunned, page edges age tanned. Contents clean. Newspaper cutting describing book laid in. "The author recounts the exciting story of his journey with Hugh Carless of the British Foreign Service into the mysterious region of Nuristan in north-east Afghanistan". Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Travel & Places; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3480. .
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Details
- Seller
- Polar Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 3480
- Title
- A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush
- Author
- Newby, Eric
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Popular Book Club
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- BZDB349 Travel & Places; Exploration. Unbranded Newby, Eric A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush
- Bookseller catalogs
- Exploration;
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About the Seller
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Llandudno, Conwy
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Age Tanned
- Age tanning, or browning, occurs over time on the pages of books. This process can show up on just the edges of pages, when...
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