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London:: John Murray Publishers, 1956.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: beige cloth; owner's name and address on the front endpaper, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; the jacket is price clipped, but bears a publisher's price sticker off to the side of the clip.. 8vo (8.75 inches tall) . Index. Description: A double page map frontis in two colors (map by E G Morton), plus eight double sided black and white photo plates. The publisher's blurb reads: ''In his earlier book, Within the Taurus, Lord Kinross was the first traveler to give a full account of a journey in Asiatic Turkey since its reopening to foreign visitors. In this complementary volume, Lord Kinross travels down from the Asiatic plateau to the lands which lie 'without the Taurus', between the mountain barrier and the sea. His journeys take him from Antioch and the Syrian frontier in the East, along the Mediterranean and the Aegean coast of Turkey to Istanbul and the Greek frontier, in the West. For the… Read More

William Morrow and Company, New York, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Preface by author, list of illustrations and index. At the beginning of the text there is a two page map showing Turkey in its place in Asia Minor and a more detailed map of Turkey itself – please see photograph. The text itself is illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Beige coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. In this book the author explores the coast of Turkey and its offshore islands where " ... vivid contrasts of past impression show the changing nature of a people and a country which has served alternatively as a bastion of Europe and Asia.'' -- from the front fold over panel blurb. Minor softening of the back strip edges with a little rubbing of the corners and lower book edges. Age toning of… Read More

London: The Travel Book Club, 1956. First printing. Hardcover. Very good. Red cloth, clean unmarked text, very good copy, soiling to some pages and to the page-edges, some discoloration to the covers, light edgewear to the book's covers, no dust jacket.

John Murray, 1956-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1st John Murray 1956 HB ; good in good dust jacket

London: The Travel Book Club. Circa 1960. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Page edges foxed. DJ lightly foxed and age-toned at spine. Fold-out map. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 167 pages. . Book Club Edition. Hardback.

The Travel Book Club, n.d.. Book Club edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g./V.g.. Little used.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good. A. Baynes (dust jacket). 8vo. Pp. xii, 167. Illustrated with a two-color sketch map and black & white halftone photo reproductions on coated paper. Printed in England. Beige cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine: owner signature of Dorothy Guth in pencil on ffep. In the two-color illustrated dust jacket with price $4.00 intact on the front flap: edges chipped, light stains and age toning, spine moderately darkened. Companion to the author's 1955 Within the Taurus, based on journeys made between 1947 and 1954. Former owner name in pencil on the front free endpaper is that of Dorothy Lobrano Guth, goddaughter of E. B. White, longtime New Yorker staffer and editor of The Letters of E. B. White. Dust jacket preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve. .

Travel Book Club, UK, No date. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. 167 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Travel Book Club, UK, No date. Book Club Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in very good dust jacket. More specifically: Corners of boards are lightly bumped. Dust jacket has light creasing. Edges of dust jacket have superficial wear. . Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. Edges of pages are slightly foxed. Pages are reasonably tanned. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Travel & Places; Inventory No: 20080140..

London England: John Murray, 1956. Hardback. First Edition. Europa Minor. Shelf wear to edges of D/J. Browning to back D/J. The Plateau of Anatolia, within the encircling barrier of the Taurus, is essentially Asia Minor, geographically an outpost of Asia. its coastal lands 'without the Taurus', whose formative influencres have come largely from the West, are rather 'Europa Minor', geographically a fourth shore of Europe. I have presumed so to define them in the title of this book, a companion to Within the Taurus. It is a title incidentally which, in the political sense, might well be applied to modern Turkey as a whole. For the Turkish Republic, built by Ataturk on western foundations, is gradually developing, like Greece its neighbour, into an integral part of Europe. The book deals, not with a single jounrey, but with a series of journeys, made between 1947 and 1954, ranging from Antioch and the Syrian frontier in the South-east to Adrianople and the Greek frontier in the… Read More

London: The Travel Book Club. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper, sunned at the spine, with a couple fo short closed tears with the price clipped. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. Text complete, clean and tight. . Hardback in dust wrapper (red boards with black titling to the spine) Physically 8¾” x 5½” (0.7 kg); (viii) 167pp; Index; Contains: Fold-out maps [1]; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #187286|| Condition:

London: The Travel Book Club, c.1960. 1st edition thus. Nice copy. octavo. chipped dust jacket 167pp., fldg. map, index, Some browning to dj o/w nice copy

John Murray,. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, small chips. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1956.

London: John Murray, 1956. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket xii + 167pp., col. & b/w pls., maps, index, ÕThe Plateau of Anatolia, within the encircling barrier of the Taurus, is essentially Asia Minor, geographically an outpost of Asia. its coastal lands 'without the Taurus', whose formative influences have come largely from the West, are rather 'Europa Minor', geographically a fourth shore of Europe. I have presumed so to define them in the title of this book, a companion to Within the Taurus.Õ Nice copy in like dust jacket