The Opening of Tibet: An Account of Lhasa and the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent There By the English Government Inn the Year 1903-4
de Landon, Perceval
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NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1905. First Edition . Hardcover. Very good in green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, and a swastika embossed on the front board. Rear hinge cracked, presentation bookplate to public library on front pastedown (but no library markings in the book). Front hinge slightly separated after half title page. Small red stain at top corner of first 40 pages, and two red lines near top corner of front cover. Interior is tight, with all illustrations present, including tipped in frontispiece with tissue guard. Introduction by Colonel Younghusband, 484 pages plus one page ad for Kipling's Kim.
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- Librería
- Tulsa Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 022094
- Título
- The Opening of Tibet: An Account of Lhasa and the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent There By the English Government Inn the Year 1903-4
- Autor
- Landon, Perceval
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Doubleday, Page & Co.
- Lugar de publicación
- NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1905
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Eastern Philosophy/Religion;
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- Tipped In
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- Cracked
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- Hinge
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- Gilt
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