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Letters From Syria
by Stark, Freya
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo. 194 pp. [24] Green cloth w/ gilt titling in pictorial dust jacket. DJ clipped w/ chipping along edges. Spine slightly rolled, otherwise clean and sound. Illustrated with 24 black and white photographs by Miss Venetia Buddicom.
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Details
- Bookseller
- small volume
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 139
- Title
- Letters From Syria
- Author
- Stark, Freya
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- Syria, Colonialism, Exploration, Freya Stark, Venetia Buddicom, Middle East
Terms of Sale
small volume
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About the Seller
small volume
Biblio member since 2023
Providence, Rhode Island
About small volume
Small Volume is based out of Providence, RI. We buy + sell old, rare, odd, unusual, and otherwise collectible books + ephemera.
Glossary
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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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Rolled
- rolled spine or spine rolled. Damage to a book created by pressure to the spine making it fold or crease in the cover. Damage...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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