The Antique Land
by Shipton, Diana
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG-
- Seller
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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1950 VG/VG-. 8vo. original green cloth gilt (cloth a little rubbed & discoloured at tail edge, inscrip. to half-title, else clean & bright) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, edges rubbed with wear to extremities, some loss to spine ends); pp. i-x, 11-220 (last blank), with 23 illustrations & endpaper maps. A very good copy of a scarce work. [Neate S57]. An account of life in Kashgar during the 1940s by Diana Shipton, wife of Eric Shipton, while he was British Consul, including an account of mountaineering in the Sarikol region of the Pamirs.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG/VG-.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007665
- Title
- The Antique Land
- Author
- Shipton, Diana
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG-
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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Castlemaine, Victoria
About Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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