Central Asia
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Eastward To Tartary
by Robert D Kaplan
Robert D. Kaplan is chief geopolitical analyst for Stratfor, a private global intelligence firm, and the author of fourteen books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate; Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power; Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History; and Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos. He has been a foreign correspondent for The...
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Jihad
by Ahmed Rashid -
Ahmed Rashid, whose masterful account of Afghanistan's Taliban regime became required reading after September 11, turns his legendary skills as an investigative journalist to five adjacent Central Asian Republics—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—where religious repression, political corruption, and extreme poverty have created a fertile climate for militant Islam. Based on groundbreaking research and numerous interviews, Rashid explains the roots of...
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Kizil On the Silk Road
by Rajeshwari Ghose
"Vol. 59, No. 3"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Central Asia Books & Ephemera
An Account Of the Kingdom Of Caubul, and Its Dependencies In Persia, Tartary, and India
by Elphinstone, Mountstuart
The Search For The Pink-Headed Duck --- 1991 FIRST EDITION
by Nugent, Rory
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1991 FIRST PRINTING of First USA Edition. Original beige boards with beige cloth spine lettered in gilt. LACKING the dust jacket. Minor soiling covers, some foxing spots to spine cloth, fore-edge foxing, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing on page faces, solid binding. The book measures 216mm tall x 145mm, and has 222 pages, 21 b/w photos, map. Account of author's quest to find the...
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NZ$17.02
K2 TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY -- UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY
by Curran, Jim
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fair/No Jacket Issued?. First printing of the USA paperback version of the book: UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. Original tan paperback with black lettering front and spine. The front cover has discoloration from direct exposure to water that has created a strong tideline. Rear cover and spine have no staining or soiling. The lower 4cm of the first 40 pages have very slight warping (not bad) but no staining or tideline. There is a 5mm wide tan...
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My Climbs In The Alps And Caucasus -- 1937 HARDCOVER
by A. F. Mummery
New York: Barrows Mussey, 1937. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 1937 USA reprint. Original blue cloth with black lettering spine. The book has clean covers, usual sunning to edges and spine, old owner gift inscription on front pastedown otherwise no owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing, tight binding. The original dust jacket has 15mm deep loss at top of spine, larger loss upper rear corner, loss lower front near spine. The book measures 209mm tall x 135mm, and has 256 pages, 16 b/w photo...
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NZ$59.58
Between Oxus and Jumna
by Arnold J. Toynbee
Oxford University Press, 1963. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good. 1963. This Edition. 212 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Light tanning to pages with minor foxing to text block edges; some minor water staining to rear most pages but text remains legible. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping, denting and edgewear with light crushing to spine ends. Minor red stain to front board. Spine has light sunning. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing to edges. Moderate tanning to spine.
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NZ$7.90
The Geological Evolution of Tibet : Report of the 1985 Royal Society - Academia Sinica Geotraverse of the Qinghai - Xizang Plateau -- FIRST EDITION -- hardcover in dust jacket
by Chang Chengfa, Robert M. Shackleton, John F. Dewey, and Yin Jixiang (editors)
London: The Royal Society, 1988. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. FIRST PRINTING of First Edition. Original teal cloth with black lettering spine. The book has clean covers, no fading, no rubbing, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, solid binding, no foxing, probably never used. The original dust jacket is clean with no tears, no soiling, no rubbing, no fading, complete with no loss. The book measures 303mm tall x 210mm, and has 413 pages, many graphs, charts, tables, maps in text,...
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NZ$153.20
![[RUSSIA / OTTOMAN EMPIRE] Consultation fournie a la Sublime-Porte dans l'Affaire des indemnitaires Russes [i.e., Consultation provided to the Sublime-Porte in the Russian Indemnitors' Case].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/493/458/1586458493.0.b.jpg)
[RUSSIA / OTTOMAN EMPIRE] Consultation fournie a la Sublime-Porte dans l'Affaire des indemnitaires Russes [i.e., Consultation provided to the Sublime-Porte in the Russian Indemnitors' Case].
by ROGUIN, M. E[RNEST] (1851-1939)
Paris: Imprimerie Chaix., [1910], 1910. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original wrappers. 4to. (29 x 22 cm). In French. 167 p. Taken from a volume, wear to spine, slight chipping on the right extremity. Overall, a very good copy. A rare consultancy report submitted to the Sublime Porte by the world-famous jurist Roguin, who was consulted in a case between the Russian parties and the Ottoman Empire when he was the president of the Ecole des Sciences Sociales...
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NZ$297.88
A Ride to Khiva
by Fred Burnaby
Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; An immediate bestseller when first published in 1877, Burnaby s delight in a life of risk and adventure still burns through the pages, as does his spontaneous affection for the Cossack troopers and Tartar, Khirgiz and Turkoman tribesmen
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NZ$30.20
Darjeeling. Queen Of The Himalayas
by Mordecai, D & B P Agarwala
Darjeeling: Darjeeling Photo Stores, 1972. 1st Edition . Printed Wrapper. Very Good/No Jacket. Presumed first edition, no date [1972], oblong 8vo, 182mm tall x 226mm, not paginated [51 pages], 3 color & 21 tinted photos, folding map. Description of tourist attractions in and around Darjeeling including details for 3 treks. The photos are oddly tinted in blue, green, pink and other colors. Yakushi84 M243 page 274. Original b/w photo illustrated thin card covers with red lettering front. some rubbing...
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NZ$76.60
Storm and Sorrow In The High Pamirs -- SIGNED 1977 FIRST EDITION
by Craig, Robert W
New York: The Mountaineers with The American Alpine Club, 1977. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 1977 FIRST PRINTING of First Edition. Original paperback binding (the first edition was only in paperback). INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Craig on the dedication page. The book is in near fine condition but has the usual fading to the yellow part of the spine, clean covers, tight binding (probably never read), sharp corners, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no...
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NZ$144.69
Dunhuang Art Relics collected in the State Hermitage Museum of Russia. I: Dunhuang Textiles, by Lubo Lesnichenko. II: Dunhuang Art Relics collected in the State Hermitage Museum of Russia. III-IV: Photos of the Mogao Grottoes. V: The Survey Drawings and the copies of Murals of the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes. VI: Archaeological Materials of Mogao Grottoes.
by Menshikov L.N., Fu Xianzhan, & others
Shanghai: Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House, 1997-2005. First edition Six volumes folio, pp.83, 111 colour plates; 229, 137 colour plates, many illustrations; 6, 359 pages of illustration; 6, 384 pages of illustration; 327, 295 pages of illustration; 544, many illustrations. A very good set, original cloth, slip-cases.
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NZ$15,225.93
Peaks and Passes of the Garhwal Himalaya -- The Guide-Book For Climbers and Cross-Country Alpinists -- FIRST EDITION
by Babicz, Jan
Sopot Poland: Alpinistyczny Klub Eksploracyjny, 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition in English. Original paperback binding. New condition: no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, clean, no foxing, solid binding, never used. This book was acquired directly from the publisher and kept in climate controlled storage for years. The book measures 199mm tall x 141mm and has 246 pages + [1], EP maps, many b/w sketches of peaks with routes...
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NZ$110.64
K2 The Savage Mountain -- FIRST EDITION SIGNED By Authors
by Houston, Charles & R. Bates, et al
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1954. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Clarence Doore. FIRST PRINTING of FIRST USA Edition. SIGNED by Charles Houston, by Robert Bates, and by Dee Molenaar on the title page. Original red cloth with gilt ice-axe decoration front, gilt lettering spine. The book is in nice condition with minor marks to covers, slightly faded spine, old owner name on blank FFEP otherwise no previous owner marks or writing on any pages (other than the...
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NZ$638.32
Istoricheskie zapiski. 11
by Grekov, Boris Dmitrievich, ed. Institut istorii
Moskva: Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1941. First edition. Cloth. A very good unmarked copy, boards soiled, leaves darkening as usual, bookplate of A.I. Ward on front pastedown.. 286 pp. 4to. Historical Notes. Contains articles on the revolution of 1905, the boycot of the first Duma, the revolutionary movement in Armenia 1905-7, history of agriculture in Siberia in the 17th-18th centuries, and more. In Russian.
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NZ$59.58
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet
by Hopkirk, Peter
Los Angeles: Tarcher, 1990 reissue. 274pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Very Good [some age foxing on top & fore edges; else a nice clean and crisp copy] A popular history of the attempts of various foreign powers to penetrate the "forbidden kingdom" of Tibet.
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NZ$8.49
Journey to Khiva
by Glazebrook, Philip
HarperCollins, 19/11/1992 00:00:01. hardcover. Very Good. 3.1976 in x 21.1839 in x 14.5889 in. HarperCollins, 1992. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with tight binding. Clean and bright text. Includes a dust jacket, unclipped, in fine condition.
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NZ$25.55
Through The Highlands Of Siberia -- 1904 SIGNED First Edition in RARE Dust Jacket
by Swayne R.E., Major H. G. C
London: Rowland Ward, Limited, 1904. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Original reddish brown cloth, gilt lettering front & spine, zebra patterned EPs. WITH publisher's rare original printed dust jacket. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the author on the verso of the FFEP and with author's inscription on the short-title page. The copy in the Brooke-Hitchings collection of books in exceptional condition did not have the dust jacket and was not signed. The book offered here...
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NZ$3,744.84
The Geographical Journal volume XXVII No 2 February 1906 -- First Exploration of the Hoh Lumba and Sosbon Glaciers
by William Hunter Workman
London: The Royal Geographical Society, 1906. 1st Edition . Original Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. Original blue wrappers complete with all photos and maps, full issue. minor edge wear, tiny loss at spine foot, solid binding, no writing or marks on any pages. The Workman paper on the Karakoram has 16 pages of text, 8 b/w photos, and a folding color relief map. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM BING OFFERED.
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NZ$127.66
My Life As An Explorer -- 1925 HARDCOVER
by Hedin, Sven
Garden City & New York: Garden City Publishing Company, 1925. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 1925 Hardcover Reprint. Many sellers incorrectly identify this edition as the first edition. It is not. The first US edition was published by Boni & Liveright in 1925. This edition has the same size and contents (but without the 8 color plates) as the Boni edition but has different covers. Original beige cloth with dark brown lettering and decoration front cover, dark brown letterng and emblem...
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NZ$39.15
A Ride To Khiva: Travels And Adventures In Central Asia
by Fred Burnaby
A Ride To Khiva: Travels And Adventures In Central Asia by Fred Burnabyfirst editionhardcoverPublisher:Harper & Brothers, 1877Condition: Good - general wear, rubbing to the covers and spine, maps in the pockets are missing
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NZ$255.31
The Great Himalayan Passage. The Story of an Extraordinary Adventure on the Roof of the World
by Peissel, Michael
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1975. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. FIRST EDITION. The book measures 213mm tall x 14cm, and has 254 pages, 33 b/w & 26 color photos, 7 maps (including EP maps). Flying in a hovercraft on the rivers of Nepal: Kali Gandaki near Annapurna, Indrawati near Kathmandu, Arun near Makalu. azure boards, silver lettering spine. CONDITION: the book is in clean covers, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, tight binding, minor tiny...
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NZ$17.02
![Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia. [Kodansha Globe Series]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/261/717/47717261.0.b.jpg)
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia. [Kodansha Globe Series]
by Hopkirk, Peter
New York : Kodansha International, 1995., 1995. As New. x, 252 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 1568361025 (pbk.); LCCN: 95-41556 ; OCLC: 33131562 ; Originally published: London : J. Murray, 1984 ; pictorial paper wrappers ; "A real-life tale of espionage and adventure, Hopkirk's latest concerns Soviet attempts to sponsor communist revolution in Asia and the British secret agent who opposed them." -- Publisher's Weekly ; AS NEW
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NZ$28.94
Many People Come, Looking, Looking -- SIGNED First Edition
by Rowell, Galen
Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1980. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. FIRST PRINTING of First Edition. SIGNED BY ROWELL on pre-title page. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering spine. The book is in nice condition with the usual sunning to cover extreme edges and spine ends, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages (other than Rowell's signature), no foxing, clean, tight binding. The dust jacket is clean, has no tears, no chips, no rubbing, no fading, and is complete with original...
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NZ$212.78
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
by Hopkirk, Peter
W W Norton & Co Inc, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 9x6x1. Norton & Co, 1985; stated First American Edition, no later printings indicated; x, 252pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; light wear to edges of cream cloth boards, gilt titling remains bright and bold; text, illustrations very good throughout. Light toning and wear to edges of unclipped dust jacket; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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NZ$59.58
Kashmir In The Crossfire -- FIRST EDITION
by Schofield, Victoria
London: L. B. Tauris, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. FIRST PRINTING of First Edition. The book is in fine condition with no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, clean, no foxing, tight binding. The dust jacket is in fine condition with no chips, no tears, complete. The book measures 237mm tall x 157mm, and has 354 pages, 10 maps, biblio, index. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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NZ$34.04
