How to Sleep on a Camel
by Webster, Nicholas
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0786403497
- ISBN 13
- 9780786403493
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Co Inc Pub, 1997. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Co Inc Pub, 1997. First Edition. Fine/Very Good+. First Edition, inscribed and SIGNED by author. Very clean unfaded brown cloth boards with bright gold stamped lettering on cover and spine. No bumping, no wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers, inscribed and signed by author: "To Chuck - Perhaps this will be a look at a road not taken - Best, Nicholas Webster." Illustrated with black & white photographs. 216 pp. Clean dustjacket is unchipped, has one 1/4" closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The story of one man's adventures as he travels the world making documentary films. The cast of characters includes: President John F. Kennedy, Indira Gandhi, Orson Welles, Walter Cronkite, Simone deBeauvoir, Simone Signoret, Elizabeth Taylor, Pope John XXIII and more. Written by one of the eminent talents of the documentary medium..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017758
- Title
- How to Sleep on a Camel
- Author
- Webster, Nicholas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0786403497
- ISBN 13
- 9780786403493
- Publisher
- McFarland & Co Inc Pub
- Place of Publication
- Jefferson, NC and London
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- ADVENTURE DOCUMENTARY FILM MAKING MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS DIRECTORS BIOGRAPHY TRAVEL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel; movies / cinema;
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