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Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1904. . New cheaper edition. 8vo, xl, 503 pp., frontispiece, large folding map (repair to verso), numerous photographic illustrations, original sienna pictorial cloth gilt, light fade to spine, old ownership inscription to front free endpaper, a very good copy. The general narrative of Stein's first exploration of Central Asia, 1900-01. Crossing the Karakoram and the Pamirs he entered Chinese Turkestan and excavated the eponymous ruins. Yakushi S713a.

London: Fisher Unwin,, 1904. "Cheaper Edition", one year after the first, and comprising first edition sheets with a cancel title. "A general narrative of his first exploration to Central Asia of 1900-1901. Crossing the Karakoram and the Pamirs he entered Chinese Turkestan, and explored archaeologically the sand-buried ruins of Khotan and its neighbourings [sic]" (Yakushi) Octavo. Original ochre cloth, title gilt to the spine, and to the front board in yellow with pictorial design in black and yellow. Photogravure frontispiece and numerous illustrations to the text, folding coloured map at the rear. A little rubbed and slightly spotted, free endpapers lightly browned, light foxing to the fore-edge and to first few leaves, but overall very good. Howgego IV, S65; Yakushi S328a.