Mount Omei and Beyond: a Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border
by Little, Archibald John
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1901 xiv,272 pp with 14 B&W photo illustrations and a folding map bound in after text.Text is clean, tight and unmarked.with light foxing. Bookplate of Steve Fossitt, financier and adventurer, on front pastedown.Map is bright and intact. Blue cloth boards with a crag drawn in brown are bumped at extremities, faded along spine.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 600639
- Title
- Mount Omei and Beyond: a Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border
- Author
- Little, Archibald John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1901
- Bookseller catalogs
- China; Tibet; China's Borderlands;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Catron Grant Books
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About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
Biblio member since 2012
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
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