West Meets East: Our Home in North Africa
by Sandford, Emily White
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Vantage Press, 1958. First edition. Includes seven full page black and white plates. Lightly glazed tangerine cloth with heavy forest green spine lettering, frontispiece, 165 pages, color illustrated dustjacket. The book is in very good condition with a slightly musty odor, hardly any discernible edgewear, foxed edges, sound text block, good hinges, mildly foxed endpapers, clean and unmarked pages. The mylar protected dustjacket is not corner clipped and is also in very good condition with foxed rear cover mostly apparent due to its white background,and which does not obstruct author's biography upon the rear cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022418
- Title
- West Meets East: Our Home in North Africa
- Author
- Sandford, Emily White
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Vantage Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- CONNECTICUT PLAYWRIGHTS MARAKESH PACHA'S PALACE MOORISH ARCHITECTURE MUSLIMS OF NORTH AFRICA MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN EXPATRIATES AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel & Exploration, International Culture;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Foxed
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