Twelve Days. An Account of a Journey Across the Bakhtiari Mountains in South-western Persia
by SACKVILLE-WEST, V
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- Hardcover
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Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Hogarth Press, 1928.. First edition. 8vo. 142, (2) pp. Publisher's black and brown patterned cloth, gilt lettered to the spine albeit this quite rubbed, ex libris Graysott & Hindhead Institute with their bookplate to the front pastedown, a private owner's inscription dated 1931 to the front free endpaper. 32 photographic plates. Binding rubbed and worn. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme, A17a.
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- Bookseller
- Bow Windows Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46187
- Title
- Twelve Days. An Account of a Journey Across the Bakhtiari Mountains in South-western Persia
- Author
- SACKVILLE-WEST, V
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: The Hogarth Press
- Date Published
- 1928.
- Keywords
- Travel Bloomsbury Persia / Iran
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Bow Windows Bookshop
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Lewes, East Sussex
About Bow Windows Bookshop
Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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