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John Murray, 1956. Hardcover. Good. 1956. First Edition. 201 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. B&W photographs throughout. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Rear hinge cracked with visible netting, thus the board is slack. Pencil marks to both paste downs. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with sunning to spine. Minor scuffing, staining and marking to boards.

201pp, red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. First edition/first printing. Near Fine/Near Fine, Dj in clear cover, small dark spot on front (see photo), unclipped price of 21s, small chip at bottom of spine, light foxing on ffep and back end page, otherwise very clean and unmarked. 18 illustrations. "The Middle East was not an easy milieu in which to work and my thirty-nine years; service covered two World Wars with plenty of civil unrest between-whiles." Detailed adventures of Sir Alec Seath Kirkbride, K.C.M.G.,C.V.O., O.B.E., M.C.