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Book Condition: Used Fine
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company

United States
About Item: Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., 1925. Popular Edition. Full Leather. Fine. Sketches by Sven Hedin. Thick octavo, full leather, top edge gilt. Handsomely rebound in full yellow-gold morocco by Kalmbacher of Toledo. Gilt spins with six raised bands, with a soaring crane giltstamped on the top cover, inner gilt rules. Reading travel books inspired the Swede, Hedin, to become an explorer. He became one in 1885 when he trekked through Russia, Persia, and Turkey. Later he went through the Gobi Desert to eastern China, and then into Tibet and the Himalayas. Sketches by Sven Hedin.
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