8vo. With color-printed folding map & plates. Original publisher's blue cloth gilt (spine slightly sunned and leaned). Provenance: Theodore Roosevelt III, grandson of Theodore Roosevelt (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, American issue (printed and bound in England for U.S. distribution). With a nice Roosevelt family association: Theodore Roosevelt made exploratory journeys in the Pamir, Turkestan and the Tian Shan during the James Simpson-Roosevelt Asiatic Expedition of 1925, sponsored by the Field Museum of Natural History and organized by Kermit Roosevelt and his brother Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (the father of this book's owner). Hopkirk 85; Marshall 874; Yakushi D70.