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Lessons of the Road: An Overland Journey to the East
by Schiffer, Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0671253808
- ISBN 13
- 9780671253806
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Kenan Press, 1980. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Kenan Press, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. Clean beige boards with blue cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. Maps on endpapers. Small remainder mark on bottom text block page edges. No names, writing or bookplates. 252 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, slight crease to front flap. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. "Harvard graduate sweeps the reader into a journey that takes him from a wine harvest in France to a hippies' paradise on the Aegean, and on a unique overland trek through the heartland of Asia." 8vo. Adventure..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009037
- Title
- Lessons of the Road: An Overland Journey to the East
- Author
- Schiffer, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0671253808
- ISBN 13
- 9780671253806
- Publisher
- Kenan Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- TRAVEL ADVENTURE ASIA NEAR EAST
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Crisp
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- 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....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Remainder Mark
- Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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