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Through Jade Gate and Central Asia
by Mildred Cable & Francesca French
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937 Book. Fair. Beige Cloth Boards. Sixth Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Compelling account of a hazardous journey undertaken by three women missionaries across the largely untracked wastes of North-Western China and Central Asia. 318pp. Fold-out map to rear. Left hinge cracked, boards marked, edges browned, marks to a couple of margins and two former owners' names to front endpaper, otherwise fair reading copy. Map in very good condition and text good..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005836
- Title
- Through Jade Gate and Central Asia
- Author
- Mildred Cable & Francesca French
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Sixth Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1937
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
Terms of Sale
Washburn Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Washburn Books
Biblio member since 2010
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
Washburn Books is a small family business, based in Yorkshire. We offer a wide variety of hard-to-find and out-of-print books in our virtual store, as well as an offline search service. We take pride in our fast delivery of well packaged books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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