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East of Home
by Rau, Santha Rama
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950. Stated First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. Stated First Edition in clean original dust jacket. Clean gray cloth boards with burgundy cloth spine, crisp white and black lettering on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean map-illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 303 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, has a few short closed edge tears, price clip at upper corner of front inside flap. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The discovery of Asia by an Asian educated in the West. An unusual travel adventure, told with gaiety and insight. By the author of HOME TO INDIA..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028399
- Title
- East of Home
- Author
- Rau, Santha Rama
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Stated First Edition.
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- ADVENTURE, TRAVEL, ASIA, SANTHA RAMA RAU, FIRST EDITION, TRAVELLING WOMEN, INDIA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel; India;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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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...
- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
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