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Tibetan Venture: In the Country of the Ngolo-Setas
by Andre Guibaut
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: John Murray, 1948. 2nd Impression . Near Fine/Very Good. 6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm). Dust jacket: Very clean original jacket. Spine browned with very slight rubbing to head. Price clipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good Plus. Book: Beige buckram binding, outer and lower page edges untrimmed. Small tear to rear pastedown endpaper, otherwise in excellent condition throughout. Overall book condition is Near Fine. Size: 6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 206
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tarrington Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1203E010
- Title
- Tibetan Venture: In the Country of the Ngolo-Setas
- Author
- Andre Guibaut
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Impression
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Size
- 6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)
- Keywords
- Tibet, China, Travel_Exploration/China
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel: China;
Terms of Sale
Tarrington Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Tarrington Books
Biblio member since 2015
Tarrington, Herefordshire
About Tarrington Books
A family run bookshop located in the heart of rural Herefordshire. Large selection of children's literature, crime fiction, military, history, travel, vintage paperbacks, quality antiquarian volumes & fine bindings. We offer free UK postage on all items and pride ourselves on our safe packaging and rapid dispatch of orders. Browsers welcome by appointment.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
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