The desert road to Turkestan

Lattimore, Owen

Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1929

About this Item

First American edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 373, [1]; map endpapers, 40 illustrations on 32 plates; fine, bright copy in original black cloth stamped in orange, preserving the uncommon dust jacket which has some modest loss at the bottom of the front panel and the top of the spine. Lattimore (1900-1989) was a noted scholar of China and central Asia, most notably of Mongolia. He was blacklisted in the 1950s by Joseph McCarthy and was accused of being an agent of the Soviet Union. Yakushi L83b.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The desert road to Turkestan
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston
• Publication Date: 1929
• Seller catalogs:
  • Manchuria
  • Travel
  • Asia