Date Desert by Steer (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Good. First Edition. Published in December 1939. The authors rather quirky experiences in North Africa and his assessment of the Italian presence. 255pp with black and white plates and seven maps, three showing defences. The covers leave much to be desired but the content is very good and most interesting.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 255pp; frontispiece; b/w plates, maps; blue boards with damp damage to front board, faded and marked spine, edges rubbed, shabby looking, interior clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Hodder and Stroughton, London. 1939. 255 pages. First edition, first printing RARE DJ is present, including front, back, front flap and rear flap. Absent is the DJ spine. Still, it remains desirable even in poor condition, as these fragile DJ's just don't exist as they have all crumbled away. Blue cloth is bright with sunning along edges, and shelf-rubbing along edges. Endpapers show slight age-toning. An uncommon title in rare DJ chronicling the state of Libya, Egypt & Tunisia in the late 1930's, per celebrated journalist, war correspondent, and close friend of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, who later became godfather to the author's son. VG/poor.