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The Life of My Choice
by Wilfried Thesiger
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0393025136
- ISBN 13
- 9780393025132
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
€13.99€9.79
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About This Item
New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1988 W.W. Norton & Company, New York. 1987. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/3nd Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O name on the FFFP and several bracketed papragraphs. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to board bottom edges. DJ: Very Good: NOT Price Clipped ($25.00); slight shelfwear to tips; light bumping to upper tips. Tan paper over boards with brown cloth overlay on the spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Clean internals: internal hinges are sound and not split. 459 pp 8vo. In this autobiography, Thesiger recalls his life in sch a way as to illuminate the people who most profoundly influenced him and the events that enabled him to lead the life of his choice. A great explorer of regions not yet explored or conquered by the white race or civilization, his life among the Somali, Druze, Bedu, Abyssinian, or Samburu peoples were what he admired the most and emulated in his own life. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014139
- Title
- The Life of My Choice
- Author
- Wilfried Thesiger
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393025136
- ISBN 13
- 9780393025132
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Wilfred Thesiger, Royal Geographic Society, Lord Chelmsford, explorers, hunters, archaeology, cultural anthropology, Abyssinia, Haile Selassie, Danakil, Suthern Iraq, Tibesti, Libya, World War II, SAS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography; African Matters;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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
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