Kashmir, Afganistan, Hunza, Central Asia from Catron Grant Books

London: Kaye & Ward, 1981 175 pp with maps and color illustrations throughout. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Bookplate of Steve Fossette, financier and adventurer, on front endpapers. DJ is bright and undamaged. "Illustrated by hauntingly beautiful photographs, many taken under unbelievable hardships, this book not only the story of an expedition (1979) but also a document of the… Read more about this item

Leipzig: F.A. Brockhais, 1930 300 ppth 90 B&W illustrations, 25 diagrams, 2 foldout panoramas, and a large map in an attached envelope after text. Text in German. The German-Soviet Alay-Pamir Expedition (also known as the German-Russian Alay-Pamir Expedition) was undertaken in 1928 by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Emergency Association of German Science. Along with the… Read more about this item

London, 1886 London, 1886 PP 341 - 400 with a large folding map bound in before text. Publisher not identified. Supplementary papers, Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain); v. I, pt. 3 .Reports on parts of the Ghilzi country and on some of the tribes in the neighbourhood of Ghazni; and on the route from Ghazni to Dera Ismail Khan by… Read more about this item

Rambir Government Press, 1945 Rambir Government Press, 1945 Annual administrative report handsomely rebound in tan calf. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Charming child's drawing of a horseman and the Buddha on final free page. Title page is missing. Interesting for the details of how the state was managed under the British. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item

Rambir Government Press, 1941 Rambir Government Press, 1941 Annual administrative report handsomely rebound in tan calf. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Title page has liquid splash marks. Interesting for the details of how the state was managed under the British. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

USA: John Culler & Sons, 1994 USA: John Culler & Sons, 1994 xii,285 pp with B&W illustrations in text and a bound-in folding map Limited edition of 500 of which this is # 64. A handsome reprint of the 1899 original account of a hunting trip from Srinigar, Kashmir to Baltistan, Leh and southward to the Indus. Text is clean,… Read more about this item

New American Library 342 pp "In a single two-day period, eleven climbers lost their lives on K2. In a mystery clouded by the haze of exhaustion, thin air, and poor communication. We are left to wonder,"What happened on August 1-2, 2008?" Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers have light edgewear.. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

New American Library 342 pp with 8 B&W plates. "In a single two-day period, eleven climbers lost their lives on K2. In a mystery clouded by the haze of exhaustion, thin air, and poor communication. We are left to wonder, " What happened on August 1-2, 2008?" Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is immaculate.. Hardcover. As New/As New.… Read more about this item

Washington D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999 646 pp with 16 pages of B&W illustrations and 8 maps. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. As new save for "in memorium" stamp on FFP. From the Victorian Great Game to the Russian invasion of Afganistan, "Tournament of Shadows traces the struggle for mastery of Central Asia from 1812 to the present. Large 8 Vo… Read more about this item

Washington D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999 Washington D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999 646 pp with 16 pages of B&W illustrations and 8 maps. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. As new save for "in memorium" stamp on FFP. From the Victorian Great Game to the Russian invasion of Afganistan, "Tournament of Shadows traces the struggle for mastery of Central Asia from 1812 to the… Read more about this item

New York: Routledge, 2002 320 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked , a little bumped at corners, as are covers.. Trade Paperback. Good.

New Brunnswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1970 New Brunnswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1970 687 pp with 18 maps in text. Maps of the steppe zone of Eurasia on endpapers. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Brown cloth boards are clean with some rubbing to corners. DJ is intact but worn, now in mylar wrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Villard Books, 2002 284 pp with three maps and eight B&W plates. In 2002, four young American rock climbers were taken hostage by Islamic militants while climbing in the Pamir-Alai mountains of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia. This is the story of their capture and escape.Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is clean, bright, undamaged with very… Read more about this item

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986 219 pp with 14 color plates and B&W illustrations in text. A chronicle and survey of the mountain culures of today from the U.S. to South America, Central and South Asia in articles by a series of explorers and specialists in each area. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is clean, bright,… Read more about this item

New Delhi: Low Price Publications, 1994 New Delhi: Low Price Publications, 1994 373 pp with B&W illustrations and maps in text. Covers the geography, flora and fauna, roads and railways and ethnicities of the peoples of the Northwest Frontier region of India. A reprint of the 1916 original document by Sir James Douie, Officiating Lieut.-Governor of Northwest-India and a thirty-five… Read more about this item

Simon and Schuster, 1984 Simon and Schuster, 1984 223 pp with one map in text. Distinguished journalist (the New Yorker, Thte New York Times) Richard Reeves traveled through Pakistan and gave a prescient report on the region's problems ahead. Reeves produced a companion show "Red Star over Khyber" for PBS Frontline in 1984 which won a Peabody Award. He detailed… Read more about this item

Essex: Quartet Books, 1977 Bilal, a black Abyssinian slave and the first muezzin in Islam was one of the earliest followers of Mohammad. As an old man, living in Damascus, Bilal looks back on his days with Mohammad and remembers the great events of his life, the suffering and glories of early Islam. This beautifully bound and printed book would… Read more about this item

Free Press/simon & Schuster, 2009 209 pp with two maps and eight B&W plates. Text is clean, tight and unmarked.Dust jacket is bright and undamaged.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

New Delhi: S. Chand & Co., 1980 109 pp with 8 B&W plates. Text is clean and tight with some underlining. Previous owner's notes on other books on Ladakh on front endpapers. Dust jacket is bright and undamaged. A general survey of Ladakh with sections on history, customs and religious heritage.. Hard Cover. Fair/Very Good.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Abbeville Promotional, 1990 New York, New York, U.S.A.: Abbeville Promotional, 1990 219 pp. with map, glossary and bibliography. Covers woven textiles, embroidery, carpets, woodwork, papier mache, nomadic crafts, straw and willowware, metalware, pottery and stonework, jewelry. Beautifully illustrated with pictures of both crafts and craftsmen. Text is clean,bright,unmarked. Pictorial dustjacket is bright and unmarred. Oversized… Read more about this item