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By Camel and Car to the Peacock Throne
by Powell, E. Alexander
- Used
- first
- Condition
- very good: age wear/soiling to boards and spine, spine sunned, toning and offset to endpapers, slight lean to text block, text c/no DJ
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
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.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1092
- Title
- By Camel and Car to the Peacock Throne
- Author
- Powell, E. Alexander
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good: age wear/soiling to boards and spine, spine sunned, toning and offset to endpapers, slight lean to text block, text c
- Jacket Condition
- no DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Garden City Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- travel, adventure, nonfiction, first edition
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About the Seller
Matthew's Books LLC
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About Matthew's Books LLC
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- Tight
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- Sunned
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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