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DUST IN THE LION'S PAW Autobiography 1939-1946
by FREYA STARK
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
london: JOHN MURRAY, 1961 Green Buckram cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine and author facsimile signature blocked to upper board, 230 x 150 mm approx. Top edge stained green, others uncut, xii + 298 pp 16 pp of monotone photo plates and 1 line map.First Edition 1961. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good/ Good (Book- mild fading to extremities of boards, moderate foxing to uncut fore and bottom edges of book block, no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- shelf soiling, 5 x 20 mm chip top front panel near spine fold, non price clipped - cover 25s, dust spotting to fore edge of rear flap fold, now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve to which a piece of coloured paper has been inserted where chip, to mask the stark white of the backing paper so as not to offend the eye on the bookshelf. No other notable defects to book or jacket).
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 131002
- Title
- DUST IN THE LION'S PAW Autobiography 1939-1946
- Author
- FREYA STARK
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- JOHN MURRAY
- Place of Publication
- london
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- Dust in the Lion's Paw, Freya Stark, Biography, WWII, Iraq, North Africa, The Simla Conference India,
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- Buckram
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