Dickson Violet (8 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0049200321.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. THIRD IMPRESSION. Hardcover with dust jacket; octavo (22 x 14 x 3.5 cm); pp. 335. English text. Bound in publisher's covers; supplied with the original dust jacket; half-title; illustrated. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight, secure and square. Covers and contents very well-preserved. Dust jacket neatly price-clipped. Without previous ownership markings. A handsome copy.

First edition; 8vo (22 x 14.5 cm); ownership stamps to endpapers, dust-jacket cover and blurb pasted to free endpaper and half-title with manuscript captions, errata slip; publisher's original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, a touch of rubbing, a very good copy; 144 pp. The copy of the dust-jacket illustrator of this scarce work on Kuwait and Bahrain. Valentine Hugh Wilfred Dowson (d.1980) served in the Mesopotamia Campaign in WW1 and stayed as an intelligence agent/date dealer, living in Basra with Margaret Joy Dowson. As part of the British political scene in the Gulf they would certainly have known the Dicksons and Margaret Joy would have been the ideal person to ask for an illustration of a date-palm with appears on the front cover. Someone has clearly taken the trouble to preserve the dust-jacket but cutting and pasting the salient portions to the first pages inside. Violet Dickson spent twenty-eight years in Arabia, along with her husband, Lt.-Col. Dickson. This afforded her the opportunity to gather botanical specimens for Kew, as well as mammal specimens for the British Museum and Smithsonian Institute. The standard work on the subject. Scarce.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in poor condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (21.5 x 14 cm). pp.144. Publisher's original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge dyed red, in the unclipped dust-jacket. 6 maps, 2 coloured plates, 5 half-tone plates, and numerous line drawings. Ex libris the Kuwait Oil Company with their stamp (dated 15 Nov 1955) to front pastedown. Some trivial wear to extremities of dust-jacket, generally an excellent copy of this important book on the flora of Kuwait and Bahrain. Very rare first edition of one of the first botanical monographs on the two Gulf countries. It includes a new genus of Cruciferae, several new species and plants listed from Arabia before, many plants from Central and Eastern Arabia, and a list of some Trucial Coast plants. For each plant, listed alphabetically under it's Latin name, there is a short description of the plant and the locality where it is found. Violet Dickson (1896-1991) first came to the Middle East in 1920 as the wife of British colonial administrator Harold Dickson. Before settling in Kuwait, she and her husband lived in Bahrain, Iran and Iraq. In 1929 they moved to Kuwait where Violet remained for 61 years and acquired the honorific Arabic titles Umm Kuwait (Mother of Kuwait) and Umm Saud (Mother of Saud, after her son). Dickson was a keen botanist and with the publication of the present work was accordingly honoured by the naming of a species of desert flower as Horwoodia Dicksoniae. She regularly sent wildflowers to Kew Gardens in London, and mammal specimens to the British Museum. She was awarded a CBE in 1964 and Dame of the Order of the British Empire in 1976.

With original dustjacket in excellent condition. First edition, first printing. Violet was the wife of H. R. P. Dickson, author of 'The Arab of the Desert' and 'Kuwait and her Neighbours'.

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "With the author's compliments. Violet Dickson. Kuwait 17.5.71." This detailed autobiography describes meeting with Ibn Saud and societal changes brought about by the oil boom. Dickson (1896-1991) was married to Harold Dickson, the British political agent in Bahrain (1919-20) and Kuwait (1929-36) and subsequently an employee of the Kuwait Oil Company. She stayed in Kuwait after her husband's death in 1959 until the Iraqi invasion in 1990, becoming a prominent member of the expatriate community. She also published The Wild Flowers of Kuwait and Bahrain in 1955. The desert flower, Horwoodia dicksoniae, is named after her. Below Dickson's inscription is a second: "Susan: and mine, in the hope that when your book on your years in Kuwait is published - based on your letters home - you will let me have a complimentary copy. Len. Kuwait. '71." Both the recipient and the inscriber remain unidentified. Octavo. With 16 half-tone plates, maps in text. Original orange boards, spine lettered in silver, top edge orange. With pictorial dust jacket. Small mark at foot of spine, extremities lightly bumped, a few leaves dog-eared; jacket unclipped, spine sunned, couple of nicks and chips, wear at extremities, especially spine ends: a very good copy in like jacket.