Published by Motivate Publishing, 2010
ISBN 10: 1860632831 ISBN 13: 9781860632839
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Published by Published by Viking, Penguin Group, 27 Wrights Lane, London First Edition . London 1994., 1994
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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First Edition
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains [xxiv] 582 printed pages of text with colour and monochrome photographs throughout, three monochrome maps. Fine condition book in Fine condition colour photographic dust wrapper with small crinkle of the paper to the head of the spine, not price clipped with the original selling price in 1994 being £20.00. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0670837695 BIO (Résumé, Memoir).
London, Collins, 1979. 4to. Original brown boards, spine titled in gilt, photographically-illustrated dustwrapper after Thesiger, (not price-clipped); pp. 3-304; numerous photographic illustrations after Thesiger, some full- or double-page, maps after Tom Stalker-Miller, some full- or double-page; light wear mainly to edges of wrappers, otherwise a very good, fresh copy. First edition. A superbly-illustrated record of Thesiger's travels in Abyssinia, Yemen, Persia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Chitral, dating from his birth in 1910 to 1978, prefaced by a 'Biographical Summary and List of Principal Travels, 1910-78' and a short-title list of 'Other Books and Articles by Wilfred Thesiger'. In the foreword to the revised 1993 edition published by Motivate, Thesiger commented that, 'This book has always been a personal favourite, capturing as it does the wide scope of my journeys and my affinity with the nomadic way of life. Journeying at walking pace under conditions of some hardship, I was happiest when I had no communication with the outside world, and was utterly dependent on my tribal companions'. P.N. Grover, Bibliography of Works by Sir Wilfred Thesiger, p. 271.
Published by London HarperCollinsPublishers 1994, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255268X ISBN 13: 9780002552684
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Condition: Fine. First Edition, first impression, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED to 'Pauline' (Lady Rumbold 1927-2008, actress and writer), printing sequence line '135798642'. Original black cloth with gilt ettering to spine and boards, light-brown endpapers. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Large Octavo. pp. [xvi], 224, photographic illustrations after Thesiger. Lady Rumbold was the daughter of the actress Hermione Baddely and the writer Stephen Tennant, marrying Julian Pitt-Rivers, then Euan Graham and finally Sir Anthony Rumbold, 10th Bt. Rumbold had known Thesiger at Eton and was his contemporary at Magdalen College, Oxford. A book in Fine condition in a Fine dust-jacket which is not price-clipped.
Published by Published by Motivate Publishing, London First Thus Edition . London 2010., 2010
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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Signed
This special Centenary Edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the upper panel, with additional photographs and a fold out map, marks the 50th Anniversary of the book's launch and the 100th Anniversary of Wilfred Thesiger's birth. Quarto 10'' x 7''. Contains 311 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs throughout, large fold out map to the rear. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, unused new book. SIGNED message by Alexander Maitland to the half-title page 'To William, Wilfred's friend, from Alex, With very best wishes, 22nd June, 2011. Separately enclosed are two double-sided SIGNED letters from Alexander Maitland to William, and one from his wife, Margaret. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9781860632839 SAUDI ARABIA (Arabian).
Published by London HarperCollinsPublishers 1996, 1996
ISBN 10: 000255710X ISBN 13: 9780002557108
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Condition: Fine. First Edition, first impression, with printing sequence line '135798642'. SIGNED by the author and inscribed to 'Pauline' [Lady Rumbold - and from her library]. Original maroon boards with gilt lettering to spine. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. [xx], 214, [2]. 2 colour-printed maps after Thesiger, 12 leaves of monochrome illustrations after photographs by Thesiger. Lady Rumbold was the daughter of the actress Hermione Baddely and the writer Stephen Tennant, marrying Julian Pitt-Rivers, then Euan Graham and finally Sir Anthony Rumbold, 10th Bt. Rumbold who had known Thesiger at Eton and was his contemporary at Magdalen College, Oxford. A book in Near Fine condition, with slight toning to page edges, in a Fine dust-jacket which is not price-clipped. P.N.Grover, Bibliography of Works by Sir Wilfred Thesiger, p.272.
Published by Dubai, Abu Dhabi and London Emirates Printing Press for Motivate Publishing 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 1860630286 ISBN 13: 9781860630286
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
Signed
Condition: Near Fine. First Edition SIGNED by the author on the half-title 'Wilfred Thesiger'. Provenance: although not marked as such, this copy is from the library of Michael Shaw of Curtis Brown, who succeeded Graham Watson as Thesiger's agent in about 1980. Original black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and board. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Quarto. pp. 176, monochrome photographic illustrations, one colour printed folding map after Thesiger tipped onto lower pastedown. This is the first edition of Thesiger's travel classic 'Arabian Sands' to be illustrated with his photographs and prefaced with a new introduction. A book in Fine condition in a Fine dust-jacket.
London, HarperCollinsPublishing, [1994]. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt on spine, light-brown endpapers, dustwrapper retaining price; pp. xiv, [2 (full-page map, verso blank)], 224; photographic illustrations after Thesiger, some full- or double-page; dustwrapper very slightly creased at edges, with short tear on lower panel, and slightly faded on part of spine, extremities very lightly bumped, very light marginal marks on pp.188-189, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Signed on the title 'Wilfred Thesiger'. An autobiographical account of Thesiger's thirty years in Kenya, where he settle in the latter part of his life, which complements Thesiger's books on the earlier years of his life: 'When he first came to Kenya in 1960, Thesiger made a series of long journeys on foot with camels to Lake Turkana, Marsabit and other remote areas, drawn by the lure of what was formerly Kenya's Northern Frontier District, its varied wildlife and distinctive, nomadic tribes. In Tanzania, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and traversed the Maasai country with donkeys. Later, as an Honorary Game Warden, he led anti-poaching patrols in Kenya. [.] My Kenya Days offers fresh insights into Thesiger's motivations and enigmatic personality. His descriptions of Kenya's northern tribes are picturesque, vivid and authoritative: Rendille warriors dancing by moonlight; Turkana in pursuit of buffalo; and a closely observed account of Samburu moran during their initiation ceremonies' (dustwrapper blurb).
London, Longmans, Green and Co Ltd, [1965]. 8vo. Original cream boards, spine lettered in gilt and black, dustwrapper not price-clipped; pp. xvi, 326, [2 (blank)]; photographic frontispiece and 23 plates bearing 68 photographic illustrations recto and verso after Thesiger, 8 maps in the text after K.C. Jordan, 5 full-page, one colour-printed folding map 'The Empty Quarter from Traverses by W. Thesiger Compiled by The Royal Geographical Society 1945-50' after K.C. Jordan inserted in pocket on lower pastedown; wrapper with light abrasures around edges, fly-leaves with slightly discoloured patches, due to previous tape adhesion, otherwise a very good copy. Fifth impression, signed by the author on title-page. Thesiger's 'first and - in his opinion - his finest book' (ODNB). Arabian Sands recounts Thesiger's travels with the Bedu through the Empty Quarter between 1945 and 1950: 'The empty quarter or Rubâ al-Khali had been crossed by Bertram Thomas in 1931 and by Harry St John Philby in 1932. Understandably Thomas had followed the easiest route. Philby's journey, on the other hand, involved a trek of 400 miles between wells, which Thesiger regarded as an epic of desert exploration. Despite such important journeys, vast areas of the empty quarter still remained unexplored. Thesiger first crossed the empty quarter in 1946-7, a journey of 2000 miles that began and ended at Salala, on Arabia's south coast. In February 1947 he met Salim bin Kabina, a sixteen-year-old Bedu of the Rashid tribe, who, together with Salim bin Ghabaisha, also of the Rashid, became Thesiger's inseparable companion during his years in Arabia. Bin Kabina and bin Ghabaisha accompanied his second crossing of the empty quarter, in 1947-8, and his later journeys, in 1949 and 1950, in Oman' (Alexander Maitland in ODNB). P.N. Grover, Bibliography of Works by Sir Wilfred Thesiger, p. 271.
London, Longmans, Green and Co Ltd, [1964]. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in black and gilt, dustwrapper (price-clipped); pp. [xiv], 242; monochrome photographic frontispiece and 32 plates bearing 109 photographic illustrations recto-and-verso after Thesiger, one double-page and two full-page maps after K.C. Jordan in the text; cloth a little mottles as usual, edges of wrapper with minimal abrasures, fly-leaves with brown patches due to previous tape adhesion; still a very good copy. First edition, second impression, signed by the author on title-page. The Marsh Arabs was Thesiger's second book, and is based on his experiences between 1950 and 1958, when he lived amongst the Marsh Arabs of Iraq for eight years, 'sharing the communal life of the villages and travelling by canoe throughout the marshes' (Alexander Maitland, ODNB); its publication in 1964 - extensively illustrated with Thesiger's own photographs - 'confirmed Thesiger's reputation as a writer and a photographer' (loc. cit.).