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Rambir Government Press, 1941 Rambir Government Press, 1941 Annual administrative report handsomely rebound in tan calf. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Title page has liquid splash marks. Interesting for the details of how the state was managed under the British. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Rambir Government Press, 1945 Rambir Government Press, 1945 Annual administrative report handsomely rebound in tan calf. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Charming child's drawing of a horseman and the Buddha on final free page. Title page is missing. Interesting for the details of how the state was managed under the British. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Leipzig: F.A. Brockhais, 1930 300 ppth 90 B&W illustrations, 25 diagrams, 2 foldout panoramas, and a large map in an attached envelope after text. Text in German. The German-Soviet Alay-Pamir Expedition (also known as the German-Russian Alay-Pamir Expedition) was undertaken in 1928 by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Emergency Association of German Science. Along with the scientists, four mountaineers from the German and Austrian Alpine Club also participated. The five-month-long expedition to the Alay Valley and the Trans-Alay Range in Pamir was under the direction of Nikolai Petrovich Gorbunov and the organizational leadership of Willi Rickmer Rickmers, the book's author.. he Soviet participants were responsible for mineralogy, petrography and geodetic/astronomical research, while the Germans were responsible for geology, surveying, mapping, glaciology and linguistics. About 400 photogrammetric images were taken to map the region. The Fedchenko Glacier was also measured for the… Read More

USA: John Culler & Sons, 1994 USA: John Culler & Sons, 1994 xii,285 pp with B&W illustrations in text and a bound-in folding map Limited edition of 500 of which this is # 64. A handsome reprint of the 1899 original account of a hunting trip from Srinigar, Kashmir to Baltistan, Leh and southward to the Indus. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Page edges gilt. Bound in blue leather with gold-stamped titles and banded spine, and cased in beige linen. Printed for the subscribers to the Asian Series of classic exploration reprints. Limited Edition of 500. Hard Cover. Fine/Cased. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Limited Edition of 500.. Hardcover. Fine/Cased.

Essex: Quartet Books, 1977 Bilal, a black Abyssinian slave and the first muezzin in Islam was one of the earliest followers of Mohammad. As an old man, living in Damascus, Bilal looks back on his days with Mohammad and remembers the great events of his life, the suffering and glories of early Islam. This beautifully bound and printed book would be "fine +" but that it is ex-libe. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Library pocket on front papers. DJ is "As New" covered with plastic . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Good +/Very Good. Ex-Library.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Abbeville Promotional, 1990 New York, New York, U.S.A.: Abbeville Promotional, 1990 219 pp. with map, glossary and bibliography. Covers woven textiles, embroidery, carpets, woodwork, papier mache, nomadic crafts, straw and willowware, metalware, pottery and stonework, jewelry. Beautifully illustrated with pictures of both crafts and craftsmen. Text is clean,bright,unmarked. Pictorial dustjacket is bright and unmarred. Oversized book. Size: 10" x 10". First Printing. Hard Cover. As New/As New.. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New.

New Brunnswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1970 New Brunnswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1970 687 pp with 18 maps in text. Maps of the steppe zone of Eurasia on endpapers. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Brown cloth boards are clean with some rubbing to corners. DJ is intact but worn, now in mylar wrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Second Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Fair.. Second Printing.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair.

Free Press/simon & Schuster, 2009 209 pp with two maps and eight B&W plates. Text is clean, tight and unmarked.Dust jacket is bright and undamaged.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Kaye & Ward, 1981 175 pp with maps and color illustrations throughout. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Bookplate of Steve Fossette, financier and adventurer, on front endpapers. DJ is bright and undamaged. "Illustrated by hauntingly beautiful photographs, many taken under unbelievable hardships, this book not only the story of an expedition (1979) but also a document of the people of the Karakorum.". First English Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New Delhi: S. Chand & Co., 1980 109 pp with 8 B&W plates. Text is clean and tight with some underlining. Previous owner's notes on other books on Ladakh on front endpapers. Dust jacket is bright and undamaged. A general survey of Ladakh with sections on history, customs and religious heritage.. Hard Cover. Fair/Very Good.

London: George C. Harrap & Co. 255 pp with one B&W engraving frontis. Publishing date not listed but probably very early 20th cent. text is clean, tight, with front hinge repaired. Contemporary i(1925) inscription on flyleaf. Paper covers illustrated with a well-endowed dancing girl have large chip missing from spine, bumped. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Hardcover. Good Plus/No Jacket as Published.

New Delhi: Decent Books, 2001 164 pp with one B&W drawing in text. Bibliography. text is clean, tight and unmarked. Pictorial covers are 'as new" with one small bump to upper dcorner.. Trade Paperback. As New.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986 219 pp with 14 color plates and B&W illustrations in text. A chronicle and survey of the mountain culures of today from the U.S. to South America, Central and South Asia in articles by a series of explorers and specialists in each area. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is clean, bright, intact with slight shelfwear. Oversized book. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New American Library 342 pp with 8 B&W plates. "In a single two-day period, eleven climbers lost their lives on K2. In a mystery clouded by the haze of exhaustion, thin air, and poor communication. We are left to wonder, " What happened on August 1-2, 2008?" Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is immaculate.. Hardcover. As New/As New.

New American Library 342 pp "In a single two-day period, eleven climbers lost their lives on K2. In a mystery clouded by the haze of exhaustion, thin air, and poor communication. We are left to wonder,"What happened on August 1-2, 2008?" Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers have light edgewear.. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Villard Books, 2002 284 pp with three maps and eight B&W plates. In 2002, four young American rock climbers were taken hostage by Islamic militants while climbing in the Pamir-Alai mountains of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia. This is the story of their capture and escape.Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is clean, bright, undamaged with very light shelfwear. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New Delhi: Low Price Publications, 1994 New Delhi: Low Price Publications, 1994 373 pp with B&W illustrations and maps in text. Covers the geography, flora and fauna, roads and railways and ethnicities of the peoples of the Northwest Frontier region of India. A reprint of the 1916 original document by Sir James Douie, Officiating Lieut.-Governor of Northwest-India and a thirty-five year resident of the region. Text is clean, tight and unmarked.paper boards have light shelfwear. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Decorative Paper. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Simon and Schuster, 1984 Simon and Schuster, 1984 223 pp with one map in text. Distinguished journalist (the New Yorker, Thte New York Times) Richard Reeves traveled through Pakistan and gave a prescient report on the region's problems ahead. Reeves produced a companion show "Red Star over Khyber" for PBS Frontline in 1984 which won a Peabody Award. He detailed a report from Afghanistan and Pakistan lookeing at the war the Soviet Union had by then been fighting longer than it fought in World War II. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Remainder mark on bottom page edges. Dust jacket is bright and undamaged. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London, 1886 London, 1886 PP 341 - 400 with a large folding map bound in before text. Publisher not identified. Supplementary papers, Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain); v. I, pt. 3 .Reports on parts of the Ghilzi country and on some of the tribes in the neighbourhood of Ghazni; and on the route from Ghazni to Dera Ismail Khan by the Ghwalari Pass.Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Map is intact save for one closed tear along fold. Library card pocket and bookplate present ( Wisconsin Consistory Library) Boards are possibly a contemporary library binding, card with a pebbled leather quarter-binding. Gold-stamped titles along spine. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket as Published. Ex-Library.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket as Published.

Washington D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999 Washington D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999 646 pp with 16 pages of B&W illustrations and 8 maps. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. As new save for "in memorium" stamp on FFP. From the Victorian Great Game to the Russian invasion of Afganistan, "Tournament of Shadows traces the struggle for mastery of Central Asia from 1812 to the present. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Large 8 Vo.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.