Where Four Worlds Meet Hindu Kush 1959
by Maraini, Fosco
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NYC: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964 ix, 289 pp with 76 B&W plates and two large fold-out maps bound in to text. Maps on endpapers Text is clean, tight and unmarked., browncloth boards with gold-stamped titles along spine are clean and undamaged. DJ has some edgewear and a closed tear. Bookplate of Steve Fossitt on front endpapers. James Stephen "Steve" Fossett (April 22, 1944 September 3, 2007) was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon. He made his fortune in the financial services industry and was best known for many world records, including five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot. (Wikipedia). First American Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 600636
- Title
- Where Four Worlds Meet Hindu Kush 1959
- Author
- Maraini, Fosco
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & World
- Place of Publication
- NYC
- Date Published
- 1964
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mountaineering; Afganistan, Hunza, Central Asia;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Catron Grant Books
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About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
Biblio member since 2012
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
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