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London: Lutterworth Press, 1951. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Lacking DJ, ex-library, else VG..
Wall of Spears: The Gobi Desert by Mildred Cable; Francesca French - 1951
by Mildred Cable; Francesca French
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Wall of Spears: The Gobi Desert
by Mildred Cable; Francesca French
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Lutterworth Press, 1951. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1951. First Edition. 177 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over burgundy cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Well bound and clean pages, with mild tanning to text block edges. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Boards are slightly bowed. Some dents around edges. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.
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- Publisher Lutterworth Press
- Date Published 1951
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Wall of Spears: The Gobi Desert
by Cable, Mildred & French, Francesca
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Wall Of Spears: The Gobi Desert
by Mildred Cable and Francesca French
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Newton Abbot, Devon, United Kingdom
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Signed by Francesca French, one of the authors behind the book. This volume was written to help those who read it to a better understanding of a little-known part of the world.
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Wall of spears. The Gobi Desert
by CABLE, MILDRED and Francesca French
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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London: Lutterworth Press, 1951. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 177, [1]; map endpapers, frontispiece and numerous illustrations throughout by Joan Kiddell-Monroe; fine in a price-clipped dust-jacket. Strange stories of desert demons, brigands, caravans, and the Great Wall of China by a pair of British evangelists who had lived for more than a decade in the Gobi Desert.
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Wall of Spears - The Gobi Desert
by Cable, Mildred & Francesca French
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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London: Lutterworth Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1951). First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 178, [2 (blank)] pages. Red boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 197 x 130mm. Maps on endpapers. Illustrations by Joan Kiddell-Monroe. "There is always danger in the Gobi, that enormous desert which, because it is cut off from the world by many obstacles, the Chinese call Wall of Spears. But Mildred Cable and Francesca French lived there for many years, and their book is full of storis about desert demons, and brigands, and the Great Wall of China, and the Summer Palace of the Kings of Gobi, and about the caravans which crawl along the Old Silk Road from Sian to the Russian border. Strange people cross the desert, to buy silk carpets from Kashgar, or blacks of jade from Khotan, or to look for dinosaur eggs: Mongols, Tibetan lamas, Qasaqs, Chinese…
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Wall of Spears The Gobi Desert
by Cable,Mildred and Francesca French
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Ribble Valley, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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London : Lutterworth Press. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in burgundy cloth in a Very Good dust-jacket that has no chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.There is some light spotting to the rear cover.Not Price Clipped.The book has one booksellers ticket from Morecambe in Lancashire to the bottom edge of the front pastedown.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.Illustrated with black and white drawings by Joan Kiddell-Monroe.The original dust-wrapper is now well protected in a cover sleeve,8vo 178pp First Edition 1st Impression [1951] . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1951.
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Wall of Spears, The Gobi Desert
by Cable, Mildred & French, Francesca
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MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia
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London: Lutterworth Press, 1951. 1st edition. Near Fine. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket 178pp., illusts., ep maps, Nice copy in like price-clipped dust jacket
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