1947 Edition: The Modern Library. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket. Red cloth boards, clean and bright, mild shelf wear to edges. Protected, unclipped, dustjacket is bright and clean, mild shelf wear to corners. Book is firm in binding, a previous owner's name is penned to front endpaper. A crisp, tight copy, with fold-out map of Marco Polo's route (from a Book-of-the-Month mailing) pasted in. (Book is not a book club edition. ) With an introduction by Manuel Komroff. ML #196.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 351 pages .

Synopsis

Books of the Marvels of the World or Description of the World (Divisament dou monde), also nicknamed Il Milione ("The Million") or Oriente Poliano and commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue by Rustichello da Pisa and Marco Polo, describing the supposed travels of the latter through Asia, Persia, China, and Indonesia between 1271 and 1298. It was a very famous and popular book in the 13th century.

Reviews

(Log in or Create an Account first!)

Details

Bookseller: KULTURAs books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 16449
Title: The Travels of Marco Polo
Author: Polo, Marco; Manuel Komroff (intro by)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Publisher: The Modern Library
Place of Publication: 1947 Edition
Date Published: 1947
Keywords: Travels - China - 13th Century. Kublai Khan. Manuel Komroff., ML #196

Terms of Sale

KULTURAs books

Sales by credit or debit cards, Visa, or Mastercard. �When If you place an order for an overly large or heavy book you will be contacted regarding exact shipping cost as it is weight/size specific.�

About the Seller

KULTURAs books

This seller has earned a 2 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.

Biblio member since 2007

Los Angeles, California

Ask Seller a Question

About KULTURAs books

Kulturas books has been operating on this lovely orb we call planet Earth since 1988. After many and varied brick and mortar store fronts both in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, California, we are now solely online and are proud to be still kicking in order to offer the widest variety of books on most of the world's subjects. Cheers.

Glossary

Glossary

Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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.
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Crisp: A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
Book Club Edition: A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...