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Cavaliers of Kham: The Secret War in Tibet
by Peissel, Michel
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Item Price
CA$67.85CA$54.28
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About This Item
William Heinemann Ltd., 1972. First edition; gilt lettering on spine; contains 12 black and white plates; dustjacket very lightly rubbed/bumped/soiled/sunned, few small chips/tears at the corners/spine ends, light damp-staining at the bottom spine end/bottom edge of the rear flap; cover very faintly rubbed/bumped/soiled, corners/spine ends faintly rubbed/bumped, bottom spine end/bottom edge of the rear board faintly damp-stained; edges very lightly rubbed/bumped/soiled, quite sunned, top edge quite soiled; interior very lightly age-toned throughout, very light pencil erasures along the top edge of the ffep, pastedowns/endpapers very lightly soiled, endpapers very lightly damp-stained at the edges, rfep lightly rubbed near the bottom corner; binding tight; dustjacket, cover, edges and interior intact and clean, except where noted; due to the size/weight of this item, additional shipping charges may apply.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Munster & Company, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 615120
- Title
- Cavaliers of Kham: The Secret War in Tibet
- Author
- Peissel, Michel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1972
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Munster & Company, LLC
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Munster & Company, LLC
Biblio member since 2018
Corvallis, Oregon
About Munster & Company, LLC
Munster & Company is a family owned business with over twenty years of experience in buying and selling books. In October of 2017, we purchased Black Oak Books, originally in Berkeley, California, and moved it all to where we live in Corvallis, Oregon. Our inventory currently features a robust number of titles on mathematics, books about books, literature, poetry, and signed books. New arrivals are listed nearly every day.
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- 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....
- Sunned
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- First Edition
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- 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...
- Erasures
- Erasures indicates marks where someone has removed bits of text or content from a book. In Book Arts, erasures can also mean a...
- RFEP
- The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be...
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