Drinkers of the Wind
de Raswan, Carl Reinhard
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good-/No Dust Jacket
- Librería
-
Calgary , Alberta, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Creative Age Press, 1943 1943 reprint, 3rd printing of the 1942 biographical piece by Carl Reinhard Raswan pen name for Carl Reinhard Schmidt, a kind of Lawrence of Arabia person, who lived among the Bedouin, wore their regalia and was one of the world's great enthusiasts for their horses. In later life, he worked on an ambitious description of the lineage of every arabian horse in the world. This book describes his first introduction to the middle east, and is illustrated with black and white photographs of beautiful horses, camels and Ruala. (Note that he cites Xenophon 's works on riding see Sparkle Books offering by Szetehlo). This copy is in good to very good condition, no dust jacket, yellow boards lightly soiled with red lettering and red topstain, blindstamped with horse's head, fos dated 1944 on ffep, spine lightly cocked, pages yellowing. This book and the Szetehlo work, as well as Stanley Harrison's Gentlemen: The Horse! are all from the library of a local Alberta collector.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Sparkle Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 001727
- Título
- Drinkers of the Wind
- Autor
- Raswan, Carl Reinhard
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good-
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Dust Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Reprint
- Editorial
- Creative Age Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1943
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Palabras clave
- HORSES ARABIAN BEDOUINS
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Biography;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
