Search Results: the silk road by hedin sven

Paperback. Very Good.

Book Faith India , pp. ii + viii + 322, 2 Maps (1 Folded & Col.), Index 1st Reprint Translated from the Swedish. Hardback. New.

E. P. Dutton & Company, 1938. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1938. First Edition. 322 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth. Black and white photographs throughout. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Binding remains firm. Pages and photographs are lightly tanned throughout. Water staining and tears to some pages, text remains unaffected. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

Brand: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2009-06-15. Reprint. paperback. Used: Good.

Book Faith India, 1994-12-15. Mass Market Paperback. Good.

Brand: Book Faith India, 1994-12-15. Facsimile of 1924 ed. mass_market. Used:Good.

London George Routledge & Sons, 1938, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing in English. -- With 31 photograph plates, and a fold-out map of the motor car expedition. Index. Translated from Swedish by F. H. Lyon. -- Hardcover, 322 pages. Condition: good-only (slanted; cover and text block corners bumped; no jacket). -- Pages and illustrations are bright.

Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 16/03/2009 00:00:01. paperback. Acceptable. 2.5381 in x 19.2893 in x 12.9442 in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read with some wear to cover's edges, and the bottom corner of back cover has been torn off. But still very useable.

Books Faith,India, 1994. Mass Market Paperback. New. facsimile of 1924 ed edition. 322 pages. 9.06x6.38x1.10 inches.

Hardback. New.

Routledge, London, 1938. First English edition. Folding map, plates. 8vo (9 1/4 x 6 inches), 322-pages. Original blue cloth. Spine a little faded, corners bumped, overall very good.

london: routledge, 1938. 1st english edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. first English edition in yellow cloth boards. Boards are bumped at the spine and has storage wear. Text is all intact and pages are tightly bound. Map clean and pasted in.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-; pp 322; slight grayish blue spine with gilt text; first edition; no jacket; cloth exterior has slight wear; some fading to spine; light ex-library markings to spine; minor edge wear; sturdy boards; text block exterior edges show modest toning; deckled fore edge; ex-library slip adhered to front pastedown; slight tone toward edges to endpapers; other few ex-library markings inside; frontispiece; interior pages clean; illustrated; fold out map at rear NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #5. 1350178. FP New Rockville Stock.

London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1938. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates, a coloured folding map at the rear, octavo, pp x, 322, for-edge foxed, otherwise reasonably clean internally, just slightly used, yellow cloth a bit used and foxed, the spine dull, the lower cover creased and slightly marked, covers a little bowed. . First English edition. Cloth. Good.

New York: E. P. Dutton. Very Good+. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. "A must read for anyone interested in Central Asian history. Hedin is an apt narrator and gives a good sense of the changing times on the Silk Road from 1933-1935. This is the second in Hendin's trilogy of: The War, The Road and The Lake and recounts one of the first automobile expeditions along the Silk Road. Great pics of car repairs out in the Gobi!"[goodreads] book is in excellent condition, including the fold-out map in rear. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 322 pages .

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., [1938]. Tall 8vo. viii, 328 pp. Photo frntsp., 30 photo plates1 large folding map. Light-blue ribbed-silk cloth, red lettrng (minor shelfwear, rubbing, removed bookplate on ffep., small stamping marks), w/ d.j. photo cover art (minor chipping & tears head of spine, creasing, edgewear, minor scuffing, closed tears), still VG/G- copy from library of Prof. Kenneth Erickson, w/ bookplate on front pastedown. First American edition of this exceptional memoir tracing the Swedish explorer’s Motor Car Expedition 1933-1935 mapping out possible highway routes to Sianking across Western China and Mongolia to Turkestan for the Chinese government. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the confiscation of Manchuria by the Imperial Japanese, Hedin had stepped forward to urge the Chinese that they could better protect their remaining lands, by establishing a new “Silk Road” which would open 3 years later by 1938. Exceedingly scarce in original jacket.

New York.: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd.. First Edition.. [1938]. Folding coloured map of Sven Hedin's motor car expedition across Asia 1935-1935. viii + 322pp. Original yellow cloth covered boards, lettered and ruled in gilt on the spine, top edge stained blue as issued. Cloth slightly toned at the edges and head & tale of spine, endpapers and edges a little spotted, text block is tight and the images are clean and bright, faint toning to the top margin of the map but still crisp. In the original dustwrapper, chipped with loss mainly to the head & tail of spine, now protected. 23 x 14cm. "The author was sent by the Chinese Government in 1933 to examine and report on the roads between China and her most westerly province, Sinkiang, in order that regular motor communication might be established. He and his comrades spent some fifteen months on their task and went through perilous adventures." (Publisher's blurb) A much sought after title in the first edition. .

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1938. First Edition . Hardcover. GVG/Good. viii, 322 pp. Translated from the Swedish by F. H. Lyon. Brilliant blue silk cloth, title stamped in red, both bright and clean. Top edge red. With 31 plates and folding map. Hedin's account of his expedition to Sinkiang. Some foxing to endpapers and a few preliminary pages; rust mark and indentation from paper clip on ffep and half-title; the blue cloth binding bright and beautiful. In dust jacket with some chips and creases along the top edge, else GVG. Photos provided on request.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Translated from the Swedish by F.H. Lyon. Large octavo. 322pp., 31 plates, folding map. Small bookstore label rear pastedown, else fine in price-clipped near fine dustwrapper with some rubbing and very small tears. an attractive copy of this important travel title.

Extremities gently rubbed and bumped, light sunning to spine and board edges; minor toning throughout; jacket a bit sunned, creased, and chipped. Very good. LMM-164. Sven Hedin. F. H. Lyon, translator. The Silk Road. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1938. First edition. Octavo. 322pp (indexed). Illustrated with 31 plates, folding map. Publisher's light blue cloth, stamped in red to spine and front cover, endleaves in yellow, top edge stained red, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $5.00. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .