Methuen & Co 1928. Super octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and blind lettering to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xiv + 331pp +8pp book catalogue, illus, G+ (frontispiece loose, moderately heavy staining & chaffing to boards, some bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, rear hinge completely cracked & fraying, heavy browning to eps, moderate tanning to page edges, owner's name in ink to fep, annotation in red pencil to rear ep)

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Bookseller: Hard To Find Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 186695
Title: The Desert Road to Turkestan
Author: LATTIMORE, OWEN
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Methuen & Co 1928
Keywords: Owen Lattimore Turkestan Mongolia China travel desert history caravan trade

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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...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
G+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good. Good is defined as "describes the average used and worn book...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...