The Silk Road by Sven Hedin - 1938

Paperback. Very Good.

Brand: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2009-06-15. Reprint. paperback. Used: Good.

Brand: Book Faith India, 1994-12-15. Facsimile of 1924 ed. mass_market. Used:Good.

London George Routledge & Sons, 1938, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing in English. -- With 31 photograph plates, and a fold-out map of the motor car expedition. Index. Translated from Swedish by F. H. Lyon. -- Hardcover, 322 pages. Condition: good-only (slanted; cover and text block corners bumped; no jacket). -- Pages and illustrations are bright.

Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 16/03/2009 00:00:01. paperback. Acceptable. 2.5381 in x 19.2893 in x 12.9442 in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read with some wear to cover's edges, and the bottom corner of back cover has been torn off. But still very useable.

Hardback. New.

Books Faith,India, 1994. Mass Market Paperback. New. facsimile of 1924 ed edition. 322 pages. 9.06x6.38x1.10 inches.

New York: E. P. Dutton. Very Good+. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. "A must read for anyone interested in Central Asian history. Hedin is an apt narrator and gives a good sense of the changing times on the Silk Road from 1933-1935. This is the second in Hendin's trilogy of: The War, The Road and The Lake and recounts one of the first automobile expeditions along the Silk Road. Great pics of car repairs out in the Gobi!"[goodreads] book is in excellent condition, including the fold-out map in rear. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 322 pages .

London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1938. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates, a coloured folding map at the rear, octavo, pp x, 322, for-edge foxed, otherwise reasonably clean internally, just slightly used, yellow cloth a bit used and foxed, the spine dull, the lower cover creased and slightly marked, covers a little bowed. . First English edition. Cloth. Good.

New York.: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd.. First Edition.. [1938]. Folding coloured map of Sven Hedin's motor car expedition across Asia 1935-1935. viii + 322pp. Original yellow cloth covered boards, lettered and ruled in gilt on the spine, top edge stained blue as issued. Cloth slightly toned at the edges and head & tale of spine, endpapers and edges a little spotted, text block is tight and the images are clean and bright, faint toning to the top margin of the map but still crisp. In the original dustwrapper, chipped with loss mainly to the head & tail of spine, now protected. 23 x 14cm. "The author was sent by the Chinese Government in 1933 to examine and report on the roads between China and her most westerly province, Sinkiang, in order that regular motor communication might be established. He and his comrades spent some fifteen months on their task and went through perilous adventures." (Publisher's blurb) A much sought after title in the first edition. .