Boston: Chapple Publishing, 1928. First edition. Red cloth decorated in blue and gilt, top edge gilt. A very good+ copy, slight darkening of edges. No dust jacket as issued.. v, 298 pp. Illus. with 32 color and b/w plates, b/w drawings and photos. 8vo. Levon West, Chauncy Howard Peters, Saul M. Arkin, Konrad Meindl, illus. Warmly inscribed by the author.

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Bookseller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 37989
Title: To Bagdad and Back
Author: Chapple, Joe Mitchell
Format/Binding: Red cloth decorated in blue and gilt, top edge gilt
Book Condition: Used - A very good+ copy, slight darkening of edges. No dust jacket as issued.
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chapple Publishing
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1928
Keywords: Near East, , Exploration & Travel, Near East, Baghdad, Iraq, Arabian Peninsula, Syria, Egypt,

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Kaaterskill Books is located on Parker Mountain in the Catskill High Peaks region of New York State. We offer fine, rare, and unusual books and manuscripts in a variety of fields with special emphasis on the Americas.

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Inscribed: When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
Top Edge Gilt: Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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...