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Isfahan: Pearl of Persia. Text by Wilfred Blunt. Photographs by Wim Swaan
by BLUNT, Wilfrid
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Elek Books, 1966.. First edition. 4to. 208 pp. Publisher's oatmeal cloth, brown lettered to the spine and upper cover, dust jacket, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper and further annotated by him on the title page. Illustrated throughout, including some colour photographs. Wear to the edges of the jacket with small losses to the upper edge adjacent to the spine and a larger loss to the goot of the lower panel, else a decent copy.
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- Bookseller
- Bow Windows Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37686
- Title
- Isfahan: Pearl of Persia. Text by Wilfred Blunt. Photographs by Wim Swaan
- Author
- BLUNT, Wilfrid
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Elek Books
- Date Published
- 1966.
- Keywords
- Travel Persia / Iran
Terms of Sale
Bow Windows Bookshop
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About the Seller
Bow Windows Bookshop
Biblio member since 2006
Lewes, East Sussex
About Bow Windows Bookshop
Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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