With the Afghans.
by FIELD, Claud
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Marshall Brothers, [1908]. 8vo. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt; pp. vi, [6], 221, [2, advertisements], one map and plates after photographs; apart from spotting of and offsetting from endpapers to initial and final leaves, a little spotting to text, a good copy of a very rare title; school prize bookplate inside front cover. First edition of this first-hand record of a missionary's sojourn in Afghanistan, with good images of landscape architecture and people. COPAC locates copies in the BL, at Trinity, Dublin, Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh University.
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- Bookseller
- Henry Sotheran Ltd. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2106800
- Title
- With the Afghans.
- Author
- FIELD, Claud
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
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About the Seller
Henry Sotheran Ltd.
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London, London
About Henry Sotheran Ltd.
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