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Random House Inc. Used - Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

Liveright. Reprint. Good. Good. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported

New York: The Modern Library, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 351 pages. Hardcover with a yellow pictorial dust jacket. The jacket shows rubbing and wear and is soiled from handling. Damp stains on the jacket spine. Jacket is price-clipped. The book is sound with secure inner hinges and is clean within.

Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1982. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Liveright, 2003-10. Paperback. Used: Good.

NY: Modern Library. 1953. vg-. Hardcover. 7" tall; 351pp + list of ML titles; rusty-red cover; black title bands with gilt lettering & logo front & spine; endpages have "ml" pattern with logos in the center in grey; dust jacket has color il on front, soiling to edges, is in new clear protective mylar; top edge dyed black .

xxxii+370 pages with index. (8 3./4" x 6") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. Revised from Marsden's translation and edited with introduction by Manuel Komroff. Third edition. Description of the World" in English commonly called "The Travels of Marco Polo", is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Italian explorer Marco Polo, describing Polo's travels through Asia between 1271 and 1295, and his experiences at the court of Kublai Khan. The book was written in Old French by romance writer Rustichello da Pisa, who worked from accounts which he had heard from Marco Polo when they were imprisoned together in Genoa. From the beginning, there has been incredulity over Polo's sometimes fabulous stories, as well as a scholarly debate in recent times. Some have questioned whether Marco had actually traveled to China or was just repeating stories that he had heard from other travelers. Economic historian Mark… Read More

NY: Garden City Pub. Very Good. 1926,1930. HARDCOVER. 5th ptg. 6x9"Heavy. VERY GOOD Condition , CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT..BIT LOSS LUSTER TO GOLD SPINE TITLES..; GOLD spine titles on dark black cloth hard covers. Turquoise & black & white decorated MAP OF MARCO POLO'S travels double endpaper art.. BLUE, BLACK & WHITE full page ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT. 32 page Introduction "..Polo's account of the difficlties & terrors , as wel as of the strange superstitions of tribes living o its borders.."..KUBLA KHAN; JENGHIZ KHAN; MONGOLS; TARTARS; .. Pope Innocent IV.. ; 370pg thick pages; Famous 1200s Italian Traveler to Orient " .

Boni & Liveright, 1926. . Hardcover. Very Good. Second printing March 1926. Well-preserved copy in black cloth with map endpapers. No markings seen. Sticker scar on front free endpaper. No dust jacket. Shipped in box with tracking number.

1947 Edition: The Modern Library. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket. Red cloth boards, clean and bright, mild shelf wear to edges. Protected, unclipped, dustjacket is bright and clean, mild shelf wear to corners. Book is firm in binding, a previous owner's name is penned to front endpaper. A crisp, tight copy, with fold-out map of Marco Polo's route (from a Book-of-the-Month mailing) pasted in. (Book is not a book club edition. ) With an introduction by Manuel Komroff. ML #196.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 351 pages .

New York: The Modern Library. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1931. 1st Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Text is clean. Cover shows normal wear, uneven discoloration to cover cloth. Spine cloth darkened. States First Modern Library Edition, 1931.; Toledano binding style '7', Kent endpapers. [Berquist, Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum, pg. 140 (8th grade) ]; The Modern Library; Vol. 196.1; 351 pages .

New York: Armed Services Editions, 1944. Oblong. 6.5" wide by 4.5" tall. no date (but 1944). No printing or edition statement. Pages browning a bit, as usual. Clean, square, unmarked copy. Flat spine. Original pictorial yellow wraps, printed in black and red. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Revised from Marsden's translation. Introduction by the editor, Manuel Komroff. Issued by the Council on Books in Wartime. Sized to fit in the pocket of the American GI during World War II. From the front cover: "This is the complete book - Not a digest." No. H-236 in series. In his book, BOOKS IN ACTION, THE ARMED SERVICES EDITIONS, John Cole says that direct shipment by mail was instituted in the late spring of 1944 with the "H" series. Cole reports the average cost for printing and distribution was 5.9 cents per book. First Armed Services Edition? . Softcover. Near Very Good condition. 319pp.

New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corp., 2002. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Witold Gordon. NF/NF/first printing this edition.. The Travels of Marco Polo (The Venetian) is the oldest travelogue going. Columbus and Magellan both owned copies of this book. However not from this publisher. This is the 4th time Liveright has published this book, three times in the 20th century. Edited with a introduction by Manuel Komroff, and illustations by Witold Gordon, this particular copy is clean and very attractive. Red cloth over boards with black lettering on spine. Tight, square and sharp cornered; the only flaw is the former owner's blind stamp on the front free endpaper. The jacket has excellent even color, no tears or nicks, price is intact. The jacket has been covered with a mylar sleeve for protection. 32 two color wood cut illustrations from Liveright's original publication have been reproduced for this edition. Considered by National Geographic to be one of the ten best travel… Read More

Liveright, 2003-10-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1992. Full dark purple leather (hard cover), gilt titles and embossed design to front and rear boards, raised bands, silk ribbon page marker, all edges gilt, silk moire endpages, (8.5 x 5.75 inches). Collector's Edition. 477 pages; Illustrated by Nikolai Fyodorovitch Lapshin, Introduction by Douglas M. Painter, Revised and Editied with Foreward by Manuel Komroff. A title from The Collector's Library of Famous Editions. Publisher's Collector's Notes laid-in. A clean, tight copy in "as new" condition. Collector's Edition. Leather. Fine. Illus. by Nikolai Fyodorovitch Lapshin. Octavo.

Modern Library, 2001-12-04. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Liveright, 2003-10-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

MODERN LIBRARY, 1931 HB NODUSTJACKET, STATED FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION 1931 on copyright pg, VG+, Green cloth with running streamer man on front in Gold Gilt & titled on Spine Cvr in Gilt , 4 1/2 X 6 3/4 in. APPROX ,hardcover-very thin boards, spine faded BUT GILT BRIGHT, good tight binding, pages toned with age. 349 PGS , NO ADS IN BACK , Kublai Khan was at the height of this glory. Marco Polo rose rapidly in favour and became governor of an important district. In this way he gained first-hand knowledge of a great civilization and described it in his travels with astounding accuracy and detail.". achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world. The Travels recounts Polo's journey to the eastern court of Kublai Khan, the chieftain of the Mongol empire which covered the Asian continent, but which was almost unknown to Polo's contemporaries. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Garden City/New York, U.S.A: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc, 1930. 2nd Edition. Original Cloth. Good/Fine (Very Good)/No Dustjacket. Gordon, Witold. Type: Book 1930/2nd Edition/No Dustjacket/Deckled Side Pages/370 Pages/Top of Pages Dyed, and Spotted Lighter Hue, as Bleachspots/Multicolored Woodcut Illustrated Inside Covers, Endpapers, and Inner Illustrations. The cloth covers have bottom cornerwear and some shelfwear to the spine. The gilding on the spine is worn. There is a name and prior bookseller's notes on the FEP. The textured pages are clean and crisp, without any writing or marking. There is some separation from the spine, though solid and intact. These are the writings of Marco Polo in his own words.