Verlag: Modern Library #13 on DJ Spine Bottom & on Copyright Pg, NY
Hard Cover. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. HBDJ, UNDATED, Circa 1943, NF/GOOD+, AS-IS, Small Black, blue & White decorated Dustjacket with Authors Name in Black top DJ which has smallish chip Bottom NOT affecting Titles dustjacket, DJ tiny Chips Tears Edges, DJ spine Top End Small Chip out Removing Authors Name & Tiny Chips Bottom spine DJ end, Maroon Brown Flexible Cloth Cover with Gilt Figure on Front has Crease mark & Most gilt on Spine Rubbed, Interior nice tight clean light FOX, Wear, Back Top Edge near spine DJ small Chip light Fox, 410 pgs, DJ Protected in Clear Mylar Brodart, 4.5 X 7 in. approx .(Modern Library No. 13) Author finished it in 1884 but for various Reasons he Postponed its Publication, R.A. Streatfeild on Butler's deathbed was instructed to publish this work as is. From various notes and sketches which remained among his papers, the 4th and 5th chapters were re-constructed.
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HB NODUSTJACKET, STATED FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION 1931 on copyright pg, VG+, Green cloth with running streamer man on front in Gold Gilt & titled on Spine Cvr in Gilt , 4 1/2 X 6 3/4 in. APPROX ,hardcover-very thin boards, spine faded BUT GILT BRIGHT, good tight binding, pages toned with age. 349 PGS , NO ADS IN BACK , Kublai Khan was at the height of this glory. Marco Polo rose rapidly in favour and became governor of an important district. In this way he gained first-hand knowledge of a great civilization and described it in his travels with astounding accuracy and detail.". achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world. The Travels recounts Polo's journey to the eastern court of Kublai Khan, the chieftain of the Mongol empire which covered the Asian continent, but which was almost unknown to Polo's contemporaries.
Verlag: MODERN LIBRARY, #102 yellow Spine DJ Btm, 1940
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1940. STATED 1ST Modern Library edition on Copyright pg. VG+/VG+. BackDustacket lists 250 previous titles and 95 cents per copy, with pre Zipcode coupon on back lightly scuff DJ, Inverse of DJ Lists 274 titles, DJ of Yellow & Green Titled in White OF BOAT ON RIVER IN JUNGLE lite Edge Cresases . 5 X 7 1/4 IN. Grey Cloth Hard Cover & Gold Gilt Title in Black box on front & Spine Cvr, 308 pgs, NO ADS IN BACK, in fresh mylar cover, tiny chips/lite rubbing to jacket corners & spine DJ ends else a tight square unmarked copy ;Blue Topstain, Light scuff DJ spine edge, Some lite visible wear, but only rubbing along edges and creasing at corners. Boards, spine, and corners all quite neat, in great shape. Binding & Interior Pages lite FOX: The pages of this book are very crisp and clean with no markings, folds, or tears. The binding is excellent and tight as this book is unread. ,Allnut and Rose, a disreputable Cockney and an English spinster missionary, wind their way down a river in Central Africa in a rickety, asthmatic steam launch, and are gradually joined together in a mission of retaliation against the Germans. basis for the renowned Bogey/Hepburn film.