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A Traveller on Horseback - In Eastern Turkey and Iran
by Dodwell, Christina
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG//GD+/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0340485280
- ISBN 13
- 9780340485286
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1988* Publisher: Sceptre.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustration to soft card covers. No bumps, slight rubs, some shelf wear to edges & corners. Minor creases to spine & hinge. GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. Small owners signature to half title. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning. Very slight colouration to page edges. VG* Illustrations: One block of 8 pp. colour & b/w photographs with a few b/w line drawn maps.* Pages: 191 pp. text. i pp. advertisement at rear.* Product Description:- This is an account of a journey on horseback made by the author through Cappadocia, Iran and into Pakistan. Places visited include Pasargad, Niksh-i-Rustan and Persepolis as well as the valley of the Assassins and Kurdistan. The high point is when she buys a fine grey stallion called Keyif.* This is a NEAR VG copy of the 1st./1st. with minor shelf wear reducing it to GD+*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4476
- Title
- A Traveller on Horseback - In Eastern Turkey and Iran
- Author
- Dodwell, Christina
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG//GD+/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0340485280
- ISBN 13
- 9780340485286
- Publisher
- Sceptre
- Place of Publication
- UK 192
- Date Published
- 1988-12-01
- Size
- 19.4 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Spine
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- VG
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...