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London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1967. Fourth Impression. Hardcover. Thick Octavo, 664 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine pictorial black/orange with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price clipped front flap. Exterior shows slight age toning/foxing with minor wear to the head/tail edges. Mild foxing interiorly and reddish offsetting to the head spine area. Boards have extremely light wear and minor edge wear. Text block shows some foxing to the edges and slightly interiorly. Previous owner's name to the front free end paper. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Fourth impression. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column F, ND-F Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates. 1377977. FP New Rockville Stock.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London, George Allen. 4th. 1967 Hardback. Complete with Maps & Genealogical Trees. Errata notes. Covers Scuffed. Light Spotting. Inscription. Good Condition

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1959 VG+/VG-. 8vo. original terracotta cloth gilt (neat bookplate to front pastedown, some maps slightly misfolded with trifling tears to margin, gutter separation between pp. 512-513, extremities lightly rubbed, else very clean & bright) in dustwrapper (a bit loose fitting, spine ends frayed with some closed tear & creasing, extremities slightly worn, else complete); pp. 664, with 54 plates (8 in colour), numerous text figures, 8 folding maps, 7 single page maps (1 in colour) & 6 genealogical trees. Heavy item (2 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy, with the 'Sketch Map showing Motor Route from Riyadh to Kuwait' (3 sheets), lacking in the earlier editions.. Third Impression. Hard Cover. VG+/VG-.

George Allen & Unwin, 1967. Fourth Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 664pp, price clipped, no inscriptions, small bookplate from The Family Bookshop Kuwait to the front paste down, illustrated. In this copy the folding maps and geneological charts are incorporated in the text, we count six sets of charts and nine folding maps, the last one of which is a motor road map at the end of the text section and before the appendicies. A couple of the fold outs have an additional crease but none appear to have any tearing or damage. There is very slight rubbing to wrapper, especially to top and bottom of spine but no tearing or fading, wrapper is now in a clear removable protective sleeve. Very little wear internally, overall an exceptionally nicely conditioned copy. Happy to supply photos on request. Heavy book, please inquire for postage outside the UK.

London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, (1949). First Edition. Large 8vo. 648pp, Index, Glossary. Full orange cloth, very good condition, lightly worn, gilt inscription on the front blank, no dj. Many illustrations, and 9 maps and 6 genealogical trees in rear pocket.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 648 pages .

London, George Allen. 5th. 1972 Hardback. Scuffed Dustjacket. Complete with Maps & Genealogical Trees. Errata notes. Good Condition

George Allen & Unwin, London., 1959. Third impression. Octavo. 664 pages. Colour plates, photographs, line-drawings; maps and genealogical trees in pocket at rear. A detailed description of daily life and customs.Head of spine slightly bumped. Very good indeed in very good, slightly creased dustwrapper.

1959. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1967]. Thick 8vo. Original burnt ochre cloth in original pictorial dust-wrapper; pp. 664; numerous illustrations from photographs, illustrations to text, 12 maps including 8 folding, 6 folding genealogical tables; lower panel of wrappers with light spotting, slight bumps to two corners, internally remarkably clean and fresh. Fourth impression of the second, enlarged edition, with the original wrapper design by Quilter unchanged since 1949. Dickson forms part of that tradition of British writers and travellers - Burton, Doughty, T.E. Lawrence, Bertram Thomas, H. St. John Philby, Gertrude Bell, Freya Stark, Thesiger - who became fascinated by Arabia and the Arabs, often espousing their causes and aspirations. Himself a fluent Arabic speaker, Dickson's friendship with such as Ibn Sa'ud and his travels in the Arabian peninsular resulted in the present work. A classic of the literature, it introduces the reader to the cultural life of Arabia, with chapters on… Read More

London, Allen & Unwin, 1959. . Third impression; 8vo, 664 pp, frontispiece, numerous illustrations, 6 folding genealogical charts, original cloth, dust-wrapper, light wear, a very good copy. The preferred edition with the first publication of the 3 maps intended for the second impression but never issued, and with the charts bound into the book for ease of use. Dickson the son of the British consul in Damascus, had unrivalled access to the desert tribes as a result of being wet-nursed by a Badawi woman. The work is thorough an comprehensive. Completed in 1936, due to the difficulties of typing the manuscript and drawing the text illustrations in desert winds and sand and the disruptions of WWII, it was not published until 1949.