Samarkand and Beyond A History of Desert Caravans
by Wellard, James Howard
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0094614105
- ISBN 13
- 9780094614109
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-057: Constable. Very Good. 1977. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Constable and Company, London, UK. 1977. 205 pgs. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Samarkand, a caravanserai on the ancient trade route from the vast Asian deserts to China, is symbolic of a vanishing world - the world of the desert caravan. James Howard Wellard was a prolific writer of both fiction & nonfiction. He was a journalist who served as a combat correspondent attached to Patton's Third Army during WWII, after which he wrote a biography of General Patton. He continued his successful career as an author until the 1980s. EB; 8.4 X 5.7 X 0.9 inches; 205 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59476
- Title
- Samarkand and Beyond A History of Desert Caravans
- Author
- Wellard, James Howard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0094614105
- ISBN 13
- 9780094614109
- Publisher
- Constable
- Place of Publication
- E-057
- Date Published
- 1977
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