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Arabian Sands
by Thesiger, Wilfred
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Boulder , Colorado, United States
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About This Item
First U.S. Edition. Hard cover. Octavo. [xvi] 326 pages plus folding map and numerous b/w illustrations from photographs. Book and map in fine condition. Price intact dust jacket shows some chipping to edges, now in a new Brodart sleeve.
Synopsis
"First published in Great Britain by Longmans, Green 1959, first published in the United States of America by E.P. Dutton 1959"--T.p. verso. "Reprinted with a second preface 1991"--T.p. verso. Includes index. "Gift, April 2007"
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Details
- Bookseller
- Abacus Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 770
- Title
- Arabian Sands
- Author
- Thesiger, Wilfred
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Travel, Exploration, Middle East
Terms of Sale
Abacus Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Abacus Books
Biblio member since 2019
Boulder , Colorado
About Abacus Books
Antiquarian, Collectible and Academic books in many fields, with focus on Art, Modernism, Architecture and the Sciences. Ephemera, Photography and Archives offered.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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