New York: The Macaulay Company, 1922. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. First edition, Photo-Play. Illustrated with frontispiece and three plates. Text block edges lightly foxed, front cover with a small stain, corners and spine ends slightly rubbed, still about near fine in a lightly soiled fair only dust jacket with a partially tanned spine and internal repairs/reinforcements to a 2" triangular chip on the bottom of the front panel, a small chip on the rear panel and a few other small chips and tears. The story of a young English woman who is kidnapped by a Sultan and the romance between them. Photo-Play edition illustrated from the 1924 film directed by Edwin Carewe and featuring Bert Lytell and Claire Windsor.

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Bookseller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 557451
Title: A Son of the Sahara
Author: GERARD, Louise
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Fair
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: The Macaulay Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1922
Keywords: BooksIntoFilm, EnglishLiterature

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Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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...
Soiled: Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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....