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1390264041.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Features: Who really discovered the New World?; Search for the Lost Squadron; Young Explorer Profile - Chriss N. Earnest; The Poseidia Expeditions - a Summary; Solving an Old Mystery; Who Owns the Past? - Ethical Dilemmas in Contemporary Archaeology; Mongolia and United States Sign Scientific Exchange Agreement; Computed Axial Tomography of the Sperm Whale Head; Exploration not Exploitation!; The Untamed Masai of Tanzania; Artificial Light for the Ancient World. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Slight spotting to boards. Endpapers browned. Previous owner's name to first blank page and with newspaper articles tipped-in to first few pages. Blindstamped to front free endpaper, the title page, and the verso of the frontispiece; Tipped-in newspaper articles about the author. Enlisted to mark out motor routes between central China and the remote province of Sinkiang, author Hedin finds himself in the midst of an effort to oust General Ma (the 'Big Horse' of the title) who himself was recruited to oust a previous general, Chin. Caught between the two Chinese factions and the White Russian Cossacks makes for an interesting book, to say the least ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 246 pages
194464125New York: The Macmillan Co. 1944. 8vo. 302 2 pp. Colour frontisp. numerous photo plates 2 maps 1 large folding. Salmon-coloured cloth blue lettering on spine w/ d.j. cover art of gateway in China to the Gobi minor chipping edgewear couple a few closed tears creasing still NF/G copy. First American edition 1st printing of this fascinating travel account of these two British women missionaries from the China Inland Mission through the Gobi desert in the years before the onset of World War II. This work does examine the subsequent impact of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II Warlord Politics and lives of Muslim women. Scarce in original dustjacket this work is considered one of the best accounts of travel through Central Asia and the Silk Road in Western China. The Macmillan Co., hardcover
303pp.+ plates out-of-text (of which 3 in colour) + folding map, hardback (editor's blue cloth, colour somewaht faded and few spots), without dustwrapper, Good, X77469
1943X77469London, Hodder and Stoughton 1943 303pp.+ plates out-of-text (of which 3 in colour) + folding map, hardback (editor's blue cloth, colour somewaht faded and few spots), without dustwrapper, Good, X77469
192pp., 23cm., 2nd ed., in the sries "Publications of the Mongolia Society" occasional paper nr.11, softcover, G, X71616
DKJ-YZU-Q2LHardcover. Good. INSCRIBED by the author to anthropologist Joel Halpern. No jacket. Spine text rubbing off otherwise moderate external wear bottom corners a bit bumped some top-edge foxing. Pages lightly yellowed with an occasional minor crease or blemish. Binding firm. hardcover
xvi + 235pp. + folding table, 22cm., in the series "Publications of the Philological Society" vol.17, cloth, very good condition, X75725
1959X75725Oxford, Basil Blackwell 1959 xvi + 235pp. + folding table, 22cm., in the series "Publications of the Philological Society" vol.17, cloth, very good condition, X75725
VG/ VGVery Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. this book accounts for two of his trips and his experiences with Mongolian culture. fully illustrated
8vo., Second Impression, with 2 full-page maps in the text, page-edges browning; blue cloth, a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at head and tail of backstrip. Published in the same month as the first edition. The harrowing account of a young Polish officer's captivity under the Russians, and his eventual break for freedom from Siberia across the Gobi to Tibet.
vii + 125pp. + coloured folding map, 25cm., photomechanical reprint, cloth, very good condition, X75704
1969X75704Leiden, Brill 1969 vii + 125pp. + coloured folding map, 25cm., photomechanical reprint, cloth, very good condition, X75704
192pp.with ills., 25cm., illustrated cart.cover, dustwrapper, VG, X71608
1990X71608London, Brockhampton Press 1990 192pp.with ills., 25cm., illustrated cart.cover, dustwrapper, VG, X71608
Very Good English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English and Turkish. [4], 24 p., 17 numerous b/w plates. The Mongols of Persia and their gold coins.= Iran Mogollari ve altin paralari. First Edition.
1943029659Sweden 1943 Tryckeri Aktiebolaget Thule Soft cover 1st Edition
x + 299pp., 23cm., 1st ed., in the series "Indian University Uralic Altaic Series" vol.133, softcover, G, X71517
1977X71517Bloomington, Indiana University 1977 x + 299pp., 23cm., 1st ed., in the series "Indian University Uralic Altaic Series" vol.133, softcover, G, X71517
320pp., 22cm., 1st edition, first partial translation into English of "The secret history of the Mongols", cart.cover, dustwrapper (bit used), very good condition, X75728
1963X75728London, George Allen & Unwin 1963 320pp., 22cm., 1st edition, first partial translation into English of "The secret history of the Mongols", cart.cover, dustwrapper (bit used), very good condition, X75728
lxv + 277pp., 24cm., first edition of the first full translation into English of "The secret history of the Mongols", hardback (editor's blue cloth), ["This work was completed in 1956 and set type in 1957. For personal reasons it was set aside and not published until the present" (1982)], X75729
1982X75729Cambridge, Harvard University Press 1982 lxv + 277pp., 24cm., first edition of the first full translation into English of "The secret history of the Mongols", hardback (editor's blue cloth), ["This work was completed in 1956 and set type in 1957. For personal reasons it was set aside and not published until the present" (1982)], X75729
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Story of John Jewitt - A young Englishman is taken as a slave by Maquinna, chief of the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island; The Children of the Wilderness - Part I - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated journey in little-known Mongolia; Winning a Wife - An incident involving an Englishman in Tirah; Down the Araguaya in a Dug-Out - Part I - The conclusion of Frederick C. Glass's adventures on a little-known Brazilian river; The Sea Devil - An extraordinary six-hour battle with a huge West Indian manta, or ray; Where the gold went - Charles Siringo describes the pursuit of two men who had robbed the famous Treadwell mine in Alaska; The Cannibal Islands - Part I - Clifford W. Collinson has spent several years in the Solomon Islands - article with photos; Three Asses in the Pyrenees (conclusion) - a couple with a donkey cart set out to explore the area without any modern luxuries; My Motor-Boat - what happend when a man tried to run a second-hand boat he purchased; How We Killed the "Rat" - a scheme to kill an intruding rat goes sadly wrong; A Woman in Unknown Albania (conclusion) - Rose Wilder Lane explores the remote northern mountains where tribal blood-feuds still flourish; A Lonely Job - a young ship's officer acts as caretaker of a vessel wrecked off the Australian coast; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
