Shelfmark
Id6.3.15 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Id6.3.16 (Copy 2)
Author
Title
The road to Oxiana / by Robert Byron.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1937 (Edinburgh : R. & R. Clark)
Physical description
ix, 341, [3] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 21 cm.
Note
Publisher's advertisement on [2] p. at end.
Note
[Copy 1] Publisher's light blue cloth binding; title, author, and publisher stamped in gold on spine.
Note
[Copy 1] Previous bookseller's price and markings: 1st edn £7.50.
Note
[Copy 2] Publisher's blue cloth binding; title, author, and publisher stamped in gold on spine; blue stained top-edge.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Loose ALS from 'Mark' to Michael, dated March 1976, on Wellington College headed paper; discusses passing on some copes of 'The road to Oxiana'.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Ms. inscription: Miss Ivy Baylis (I hear she's a motorist + hope therefore that she will sympathise with some of these journeys) Robert Byron.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Two loose paper drawings, one signed R.B.
Binding
[Both copies] Lacking dust-jacket.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] Occasional pencil markings and ms. inscription on end leaf: How much did it cost? How did they speak? What language did they know? ?Persian p. ?3.
Subject
Afghanistan Description and travel.
Subject
Iran Description and travel.
Subject
Middle East Description and travel.
Added entry--name
Macmillan & Co. Ltd. publisher.
Added entry--name
R. & R. Clark printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Added entry--place
Scotland Edinburgh.
Identifier
B43741