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Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, 1923. first edition. hardcover. very good: age wear/soiling to boards and spine, spine sunned, toning and offset to endpapers, slight lean to text block, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 392pp. travel memoir by author and WWI correspondent. opening of first chapter: "When I told the British chief of staff in Constantinople that we purposed crossing western Asia, from the Mediterranean to the Caspian, through Syria, Arabia, Mesopotamia, and Persia, he was not encouraging. "Of course you may get across all right," he said pessimistically, "but we can't guarantee your safety. All we can promise is that, if the Bedouins do capture you, we'll send out some planes and jolly well bomb the beggars until they let you go." #01165.
BY CAMEL AND CAR TO THE PEACOCK THRONE by Powell, E. Alexander - 1923
by Powell, E. Alexander
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BY CAMEL AND CAR TO THE PEACOCK THRONE
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The Century Co., 1923. 392pp. Orange cloth hardback, no DJ, black and gold lettering and decoration on cover and spine, brown foxing spots on outer page edges and most illustration pages and ones nearby, owner name on front end page, index, b&w photos, fold out map, By Camel and Car to the Peacock Throne, . Hard Cover. Good +.
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Garden City, NY1923: Garden City. vg. Hardcover. 392pp + glossy b/w photo plates; text clean, previous owner name in pencil on front ep, foxing to fore edge; 8.25" tall; tan cover with faded spine & edges; chips & tears to 2-color il'd dj in new protective mylar .
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Garden City: Garden City Publishing, 1923. xi, 392pp, index, bw ills. Or cloth in jacket. Jacket heavily water stained, some water staining to top and bottom of numerous pages, prev owner bookplate at front. Travel by car from Constaninople to Baghdad including Lebanon, Judea, and Kurdistan.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Poor. 8vo.
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D. Appleton-Century, 1939. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xxii, 391 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits, folded map ; 20 cm.
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New York and London: The Century Co, 1923. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxii, 392; folding map printed in color, numerous illustrations from photographs on plates; original pictorial orange cloth stamped in gilt and black; mild dampstaining throughout, front hinge starting at the half-title, some spotting, spine dusty; all else good and sound.
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