Title:The Shah's Last Ride; The Story of the Exiled, Misadventures and Death of the Emperor
Author:Shawcross, William
Price:AUD$14.90 (about USD$9.60)
ISBN:070113254X
Item ID:SB00-0107838
Quantity:1
Publisher:Chatto & Windus, London, 1989
Edition:First
Illustrator:Photographic
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Very Good
Dust Jacket:Good
XII, 13-464 pages, acknowledgements, notes and index. Black coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photography throughout the text. Black coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Minor bumping to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book corners. Browning of the text block edges and of the internal margins. Decorated dustwrapper with red and blue titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of the author to the rear dustwrapper panel. Rubbing and creasing to the dustwrapper edges and some rubbing to the dustwrapper panels. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower edge of the front fold over panel. In this book the author looks at the last years of the last Shah of Iran, who fled, never to return, on the cusp of the Ayatollah Khomeini's triumphant return. It details how a bewildered and sick man, shuttled from country to country, for the remaining years of his life trying to find refuge. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Politics; History -- Middle East; Middle East; ISBN: 070113254X. ISBN/EAN: 9780701132545. Inventory No: 0107838.