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Cornell University Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good++/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. Green cloth boards frayed at edges. Spine sun darkened. Fore edges and endpapers tanned. Text pages are clean. Map in rear pocket is in very nice condition. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.
Arabian Highlands by Philby, H. St. J. B - 1952
by Philby, H. St. J. B
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Arabian Highlands
by Philby, H. St. J. B
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Ithaca, N.Y.: Published by the Cornell University Press for the Middle Eastern Institute, 1952. First edition (not published in England). Without errata slip. Illustrated with 64 half-tones, 3 maps (including large folding map of Qizan in pocket at back), and 2 diagrams. xvi, 771 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth. Front inner hinge tender, very good in very good dust jacket (old cello tape staining at head of spine panel, small losses). First edition (not published in England). Without errata slip. Illustrated with 64 half-tones, 3 maps (including large folding map of Qizan in pocket at back), and 2 diagrams. xvi, 771 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. This book chronicles Philby's two trips to the southwest corner of Saudi Arabia in 1932 and in 1936-1937 which were at the time almost unknown and uncharted. A very scarce book indeed.
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- Format/Binding Illustrated with 64 half-tones, 3 maps (including large folding map of Qizan in pocket at back), and 2 diagrams. xvi, 771 pp. 1
- Book Condition Used - Green cloth. Front inner hinge tender, very good in very good dust jacket (old cello tape staining at head of spine panel, small
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- Edition First edition (not published in England). Without errata slip
- Publisher Published by the Cornell University Press for the Middle Eastern Institute
- Place of Publication Ithaca, N.Y.
- Date Published 1952
- Keywords Middle East
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ARABIAN HIGHLANDS
by Philby, H. St. J. B
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Arabian Highlands
by Philby, H. St. J. B
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Cornell University Press. Very Good+. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor wear to cloth, no jacket; Map in rear; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 771 pages .
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Arabian Highlands
by Philby, H. St. J. B
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E-375: Cornell University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1952. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York. 1952. Xvi, 771 pgs. 1 large map present. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (chip present to the crown of the spine, repaired closed tear present to the spine). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Bookplate present to the reverse of the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Until the 1930's the highlands of the south-west corner of Saudi Arabia were among the world's few remaining lands not fully explored or charted. Into this region H. St. J. B. Philby, author and explorer, made two journeys, the first in 1932 and the other in 1936 and 1937. Arabian Highlands is his travel record of what he saw and what his everyday experiences were. EB;…
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Arabian Highlands
by Philby, H. St. J. B
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Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: Cornell Univ. Press, 1952. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. DJ lightly rubbed with minor wear, bookplate on front paste-down, otherwise very lcean, tight and bright, map in rear pocket.
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