Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
by DALRYMPLE, WILLIAM
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About This Item
Bloomsbury 2013. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt crossed sword motif to front board, beautifully illus eps, xl + 567pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to spine & board extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims, sl adhesion & staining to illus) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling)
Synopsis
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE is the author of seven previous works of history and travel, including City of Djinns, which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; the best-selling From the Holy Mountain; White Mughals, which won Britain’s most prestigious history prize, the Wolfson; and The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize for History and Biography. He divides his time between New Delhi and London, and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker.
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- Title
- Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
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- DALRYMPLE, WILLIAM
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- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury 2013
- Keywords
- Afghanistan history battles war 19th nineteenth century politics first edition signed
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- Octavo
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