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London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., [1926]. 12mo. 318 pp., plus 2 pp. publ. ads. Red cloth, black lettering (light foxing to endpapers, fore-edges), w/ d.j. great cover art of travelers in pith helmets on camels in the desert by Abby (minor dustsoiling, minor sunning to spine), VG/VG- copy, w/ former ownership signature on ffep. First popular edition of this rousing novel of adventure and romance set against the backdrop of the heavy fighting between Italian colonial forces and Arab Libyan rebels following World War I and the ousting of the Ottoman Empire from North Africa. Very scarce in original dustjacket.

New York: Macaulay Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (no price), generally toned and soiled, rubbed at the edges, chip at the lower-right corner of the front panel. Brown buckram with blue ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, foxed at the edges, former owner's name on the front endpaper. A novel of romance and adventure as "the most formidable dowager in aristocratic Rome" sets off with Colonel Navarro to marry and travel Africa.