Powell, E[dward] Alexander. The Last Home of Mystery. Adventures in Nepal together with accounts of Ceylon, British India, the Native States, the Persian Gulf, the Overland Desert Mail and the Baghdad Railway.

€ 120.00

First Garden City edition in the year of the Century Co. first issue. Includes mentions of the "Pirate Coast", Bahrein and the Gulf. The American author E. Alexander Powell (1879-1957) had worked war correspondent during World War I and was commissioned as a captain in military intelligence in 1917. He subsequently took up journalism before switching to a successful career as an adventure and travel writer.

Upper corner a little buckled; a few pencil annotations. From the collection of the Austrian civil servant Dr. Alfred Brandner, with his ownership stamp and inscribed to him (Vienna, 1941) on the flyleaf.