Riddles of the Gobi Desert
by Sven Hedin
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 23 x 15 cm. Octavo. 382. Bound in red cloth, no jacket. Translated from the Swedish by Elizabeth Sprigge and Claude Napier, this is the stated first American edition. With 24 illustrations. Fading to the spine A few pen notations as well as some foxing on the front endpapers only.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56883
- Title
- Riddles of the Gobi Desert
- Author
- Sven Hedin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
Terms of Sale
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....