From The Black Mountain to Waziristan
by Wylly, H. C
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Macmillian and Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature in heavy pencil on margin of title page. Some bumping to ends of spine. 1/2" tear to tail of spine. Small scrape to tail page edges. Some bumping to corners of boards. Tiny less than 1/8" hole to front board. ; xx, 505 pages + 8 folding maps, including one colour. Pages dimensions: 215 x 138mm. Title continues: "Being an Account of the Border Countries and the more Turbulent of the Tribes Controlled by the North-West Frontier Province, and of Our Military Relations with them in the Past." Brown cloth boards. Page edges dyed red. Selected contents include: The Borderland; Black Mountain Tribes; Yusafzais and Gaduns; Utman Khels; Clans of Bajaur and Dir; Afridis and Orakzais.; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5856
- Title
- From The Black Mountain to Waziristan
- Author
- Wylly, H. C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillian and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1912
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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