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New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. Hardback. The Travels of Marco Polo. Previous owners name to inside cover. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Contents: Introduction. Prologue. Account of Regions Visited or Heard of On the Journey From the Lesser Armenia to the Court of the Great Khan at Shangtu. Account of the Great Kublai Khan, His Capital, Court and Government. Also of Cities and Provinces Visited on Journeys Westward and Southward. Japan and Archipelago, Southern India, and the Coasts and Islands of the Indian Sea. The Wars Among the Tartar Princes and Some Account of the Northern Countries. Index. 370 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). 7th Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press Copyright of this edition is 1992. 477 pages. Full brown leather covers with raised spine bands and gilt stamped lettering/decoration. Silk morie end leaves and sewn in book mark. All edges of text are gilded. There is a little sight rubbing seen on the fore edge of the text block. Volume is otherwise Fine.. Full Leather. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Nikolai Fyodorovitch Lapshin.

The Limited Editions Club , 1934. Book. Fine. Hard Cover with Slipcase. Signed by Illustrator(s). Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Two black cloth hardcovers with burnt-orange labels on spine and front with gilt lettering; no jackets; top edges gilt; 477 pages total; limited edition 1393/1500; signed by Lapshin. Labels on spine are very slightly off-color and the gilt on the spine is very slightly dull, otherwise books are like new. Slipcase, however, is only in good minus condition with some edge wear and splitting..

MODERN LIBRARY, 1931 HB NODUSTJACKET, STATED FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION 1931 on copyright pg, VG+, Green cloth with running streamer man on front in Gold Gilt & titled on Spine Cvr in Gilt , 4 1/2 X 6 3/4 in. APPROX ,hardcover-very thin boards, spine faded BUT GILT BRIGHT, good tight binding, pages toned with age. 349 PGS , NO ADS IN BACK , Kublai Khan was at the height of this glory. Marco Polo rose rapidly in favour and became governor of an important district. In this way he gained first-hand knowledge of a great civilization and described it in his travels with astounding accuracy and detail.". achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world. The Travels recounts Polo's journey to the eastern court of Kublai Khan, the chieftain of the Mongol empire which covered the Asian continent, but which was almost unknown to Polo's contemporaries. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1962. 2nd . Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lapshin, Nikolai Fyodorovitch. 477pp.; HB brwn. leather w/gilt-gilt trim&ribbon-pic.cover; fine condition w/clean,tight pgs. " ...the most outstanding and unique record in all travel literature... " illus.