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Quest for Sheba
by Pearn, Norman Stone & Vernon Barlow
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's blind-stamp on the title page ("Hardwicke Knight / Broad Bay / Dunedin"). Boards and page edges dust-stained.; 258 pages + frontispiece + 14 illustrations on 7 plate leaves + maps on endpapers. Yellow cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 138mm. Travel, Arabia. Selected chapter titles: The Road to Aden; Forbidden Places; The Desert of Stone; Starlight; The Fury of the Heavens - Our Caravan is Washed Down from the Djol; The Caravan hastens from Sif; Desertion; Sheba and Solomon; The First Menelik - and the Last; Henan Affairs and the Return to Shibam; An Unknown Desert Eden; The Safety of the Sea. [Seller Ref: KnightCol]; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15219
- Title
- Quest for Sheba
- Author
- Pearn, Norman Stone & Vernon Barlow
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Ivor Nicholson and Watson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1937
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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