Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Book has red cloth boards with black titles. 248 pages with internal photographs on coated paper. The dust jacket has not been price clipped 8/6 but has chipping at the top of the spine; a 2" piece missing from the bottom of the spine; a closed tear across the front panel and over all edge wear. Selling quality books for over 35 years.
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.
Published by Sampson Low, London, 1935
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. 278p. Red cloth. A very good copy.