Tibet: A Woman's Lone Trek Across a Mysterious Land
by Wilby, Sorrel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0356159183
- ISBN 13
- 9780356159188
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1988 * Publisher: MacDonald, Queen Anne?s Press.* Binding and cover condition: Medium Blue cloth, white title to spine. No bumps, corners and bottom edges rubbed. VG* Jacket condition: Colour photo illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £12.95. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Some impression marks to covers both front and rear. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end-papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks to end papers and fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: One block of 16 pp. colour photos.* Pages: 219 pp. text.* Description: Here is the incredible story of a solo-journey across the rooftop of the world ? a trek into a land long hidden from Western eyes. Sorrel Wilby dreamed of adventure and dared to act out that dream. With her words and her camera, she has captured the spirit of an ancient and enduring race, and depicted the soul of an untamed landscape.* A NEAR VG++ copy of the 1st. edition 1st. impression with some faults to dust jacket reducing it to VG*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4015
- Title
- Tibet: A Woman's Lone Trek Across a Mysterious Land
- Author
- Wilby, Sorrel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0356159183
- ISBN 13
- 9780356159188
- Publisher
- Macdonald
- Place of Publication
- London UK 232
- Date Published
- 1988-07-21
- Size
- 23.6 x 16.4 x 2 cm
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