East Is East
by MIKES, George
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Andre Deutsch Limited , 1958. Hardback. First edition, 1958. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Bentley Nicolas (illustrator). First Edition. Lovely copy in attractive dust jacket - 190pp. Red cloth with gilt titles. Dustjacket is quite dust faded with shelf wear. Otherwise clean copy. The author gives a warm and humorous account of the people he met on his travels throughout Japan, Philippines, Hong Kong, Malaya, Siam and Turkey. Published: Andre Deutsch, London, 1958
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7046
- Title
- East Is East
- Author
- MIKES, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch Limited
- Date Published
- 1958
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About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
Biblio member since 2017
Stockport, Cheshire
About Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
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- Shelf Wear
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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