Across a Darkling Plain: An American's Passage Through the Middle East
by Frady, Marshall
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper's Magazine Press/Harper & Row, 1971. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Harper's Magazine Press/Harper & Row, 1971. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Clean gold/brown tweed boards with gold cloth spine, brown lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean gold endpapers with previous owner name on front free endpaper. 199 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, one tiny 1/4" closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Travel through Egypt, Jordan and Israel, lands which have been the unseen landscape of author's childhood and whose scriptural sagas had formed the dramturgy of his own work. Marshall Frady finds between Arabs and Israelis a collision of two ages, a blind grappling of two dialectics, two realities, each barely comprehensible to the other. 8vo. Middle East..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013684
- Title
- Across a Darkling Plain: An American's Passage Through the Middle East
- Author
- Frady, Marshall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Stated First Edition.
- Publisher
- Harper's Magazine Press/Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- MIDDLE EAST TRAVEL ADVENTURE ARABS ISRAELIS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel; Middle East;
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