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The Doomed Oasis: A Novel of Arabia
de Hammond Innes
- Usado
- good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good/Very Good
- Librería
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Precio
EUR 4.67EUR 3.27
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Sobre este artículo
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, 1960 Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, New York. 1960. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, tips, and board bottom edges. DJ: Very Good; missing small pieces at head, tail, and tips; else Near Fine. Green grained boards and spine with bright blue lettering on the spine. Tinted textblock top. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 248 pp 8vo. This is a story of the Arabian Peninsula in the early days of the oil discoveries and the fights between Bedouin Kings and Corporate heads over oil rights/concessions. In this story a young man goes to a place that could be Yemen in search of his long vanished father who is an oil explorer and Arabist. The longer the boy stays in the region the more he becomes more like his father but his quest is for water for the Bedouin tribes which presents many twists and turns for him to achieve his goal. A clean very presentable copy.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 014725
- Título
- The Doomed Oasis: A Novel of Arabia
- Autor
- Hammond Innes
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Book Club Edition
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1960
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- geology fiction, oil exploration fiction, Middle East Fiction, romance fiction, water drilling, oil drilling, oil concessions, British oil companies, lawyers, bastard children, missing fathers, water rights, oil rights,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Geology;
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Miembro de Biblio desde 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
Sobre Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
