Boston, MA: Atlantic- Little, Brown and Company, 1966 Atlantic- Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA. 1966. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Very Good +; Price Clipped; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. Bedouin carpet for wrap around boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Maps as endpapers. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 467 pp 8vo. The author was the wife of the FAO Mission of the United Nations in Libya in the 1960s and gained unfettered access to the people of Libya and due to her sympathy and understanding was admitted to many closed spaces for most foreigners. This is a story of a compassionate, intelligent American woman and of how she was drawn to the people of Libya, the citizens of a rugged new Arab state ravaged by war, caught up between the sea and Sahara, and struggling to catch up with the modern world. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

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Bookseller: Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 017072
Title: Children of Allah: Between the Sea and Sahara
Author: Agnes Newton Keith
Illustrator: Agnes Newton Keith
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good +
Jacket Condition: Very Good +
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Atlantic- Little, Brown and Company
Place of Publication: Boston, MA
Date Published: 1966
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Keywords: Middle East, Libya, United Nations, Harry Keith, FAO for the UN in Libya, Italians, Mohammed Idris, Tripoli, Benghazi, oil discovery in Libya,
Bookseller catalogs: Autobiography;

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Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.

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