Afghanistan Venture (SIGNED)
San Antonio: The Naylor, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. TLS tipped to ffep, in presentation to the president of Stanford University. 8vo. 454 pp. Index. Blue cloth, map endpapers in publisher's color illustrated dustjacket. Light wear to extremities; bump to lower front corner; stain along upper front edge else a near fine copy in very good dustjacket (wear to extremities; chips along upper edge; short closed tears). Item #18652
As a civil engineer, the author worked on a huge reclamation and irrigation project in Afghanistan and had the opportunity to look "... long, closely and hard at this exotic country, so important now to the West in this tense and explosive region that borders Russian, and stands as a buffer between that country and the vast riches of the Indian sub-continent." - dustjacket.
Price: $100.00