The desert road to Turkestan

by Owen Lattimore

$300 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

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

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