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Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London
Seller: Rattlesnake Books, London, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Red cloth; no date; black/white frontis and plates. A military adventurer's biography. Minor shelf wear.
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co 1937, 1937
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Super octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, vii + 246pp, illus/photos, G+ (heavy scuffing & fraying/surface loss to spine & board corners, moderate to heavy cracking to spine hinges, moderate fading & foxing to spine, moderate staining to front board, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, varying degrees of foxing throughout, sm ink 'tick' to ffep).
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. [1937], London, 1937
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Quite heavy foxing to page edges. Moderate foxing to title page. Some rubbing and light vertical creasing to spine cloth. Previous owner's signature. ; vii, [3], 246 pages + frontispiece + 7 plates. Red cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 141mm. Illustrations are: The Spirit of Morocco; A Beauty of the Berber Clan; The Most Welcome Sight to All Desert Travellers; Arab Children Also Play Marbles; The Courtyard of El Raisuli's Palace at Argila; A Village of Mud Houses in the Atlas Mountains; A Corner of the Suk for Copper Ware; Entrance to a "Fondak". Chapter titles: A Bath and a Baggage; Sand and Sun; Women of the Death Squad; Suzanne; Arzila; Sur Les Toits D'Arzila; A Trap for Loyalists; Woman's Place in War; Spawn of the Devil; Valley of Death; Adusha; Beyond the Spanish Protectorate. "It was a night that dripped with the soft mellow light of a low-hanging, orange-coloured moon. Every particle of scattered vegetation stood out in stark relief over that flat sheet of earth, which gleamed under the moon's rays like polished steel." - page 1.