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Ibn Sa'ud; The Puritan King of Arabia
by Williams, Kenneth
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Woodstock, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped (8s. 6d. net), chipped, generally stained and soiled. Green cloth with green ink lettering on the spine and front board, rubbed at the foot of the spine. Square and firmly bound, spotted green top stain, foxed at the edges. Advertised as the first portrait of the first king of Saudia Arabia, who the jacket describes as "a ruler in the mould of Kemal or Mussolini.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8118
- Title
- Ibn Sa'ud; The Puritan King of Arabia
- Author
- Williams, Kenneth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- Middle East, Politics, History, Kingdom, Islam, Muslim
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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