The Arab of the Desert. A Glimpse into Badawin Life in Kuwait and Sau'di Arabia.
London, Allen & Unwin, 1951.
8vo (170 x 236 mm). 664 pp. With frontispiece portrait of HH Sheikh Sir Ahmad al Jabir al Sabah, contemporary Ruler of Kuwait, and numerous plates and text illustrations, as well as a folding map loosely inserted under a cloth tab in the lower cover. Original publisher's red cloth.
€ 350.00
Second edition of this classic work by Lieutenant Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson (1881-1959), British colonial administrator in the Middle East from the 1920s until the 1940s.
Blue ballpoint ownership of Margaret & Vince Reel, dated 1957, to front pastedown. In very good condition.
References
OCLC 6947893. Cf. Macro 840 (1st ed.).
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