The Wildest Dreams of Kew; A Profile of Nepal. First Printing. Signed by the Author.

Bernstein, Jeremy

ISBN 10: 067120498X / ISBN 13: 9780671204983

Published by New York. Simon and Schuster, 1970

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New York. Simon and Schuster. 1970. Stated first printing on the copyright page. Hard Cover. Mid blue cloth boards with gilt vignette to upper board and gilt titles to spine. Medium 8vo 9½" x 6  [24cm x 15cm] approx. 180pp. Slight browning and softening at spine ends but no other wear. Very good plus condition. Black and white photographs in the text by Claude Jaccoux. Dust wrapper has wraparound design and is unclipped. Some minor edge wear at the spine ends and more pronounced wear along the top rear edge with small nicks. The author has signed the double page title page with a somewhat cryptic dedication 'For Foxy and Gary's Long may it wave, love Jeremy'. A portrait of Nepal through the eyes of the author and about how the area of land remained the same for centuries until the British Raj became neighbours and a North Korean-styled dictatorship took hold of the country. The wraps will be covered with a 100 micron inert archival protective jacket which is removable.

Seller Inventory # YR3AUG15016

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Wildest Dreams of Kew; A Profile of Nepal. First Printing. Signed by the Author.
• Publisher: New York. Simon and Schuster
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067120498X
• ISBN 13: 9780671204983
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Closed to the west during most of its bloody ancient history, there was little change in the remote and beautiful land-with sturdy people steeped in religious piety and ancestral ways. You are taken into an often hostile mountainous land, jungles, without doctors or electricity (from the DJ)