With the uncommon dust jacket
The desert road to Turkestan
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1929. 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. Item #67556
Price: $300.00
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