London: William Heinemann. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. (1940). Hardcover. Owner's signature. Light foxing to page edges. 1" missing at each end of dust wrapper spine. 4" tear in front panel of dust wrapper with tape repair on reverse side. Dust wrapper spine rubbed and foxed. Bookseller's sticker pasted over price on spine of dust wrapper. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 6th impression, January 1940. [The first printing was August 1937]. xvi, 312 pages + frontis + fold-out map + 65 b&w illustrations. Red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. ; 8vo .

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 6661
Title: Forbidden Journey: from Peking to Kashmir
Author: Maillart, Ella K
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+ in Fair dust jacket
Publisher: William Heinemann
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: (1940)
Keywords: Maillart Forbidden Journey Peking Tibet Kashmir In

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We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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....
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...