Unknown Oman by Phillips, Signed (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. 319 pages, notes and bibliography, index. Soiling and fading on the spine, a few soil spots on the boards, substantial foxing on the edges and endpapers. Binding stressed after the first signature, but holding up. The jacket edges and spine ends are worn with chipping and small creases, spine faded, generally foxed. Warm author's inscription on the front free endpaper. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Discoloration first and last pages, from spine to dust jacket. Edge wear to dust jacket, small hole. Signed on ffep along with phone numbers. Inscribed by Author(s).

First American Edition. 319 mit einigen s/w Abbildungen auf Tafeln. Schutzumschlag leicht berieben und im Rückenbereich ausgeblichen, Einband am Rücken oben und unten leicht bestoßen, Buchblock oben leicht stockfleckig, sonst handelt es sich um ein gutes Exemplar mit nur leichten Gebrauchsspuren. Große Widmung des Verfassers an den Vorbesitzer auf den Vor- und Nachsatzblättern, ansonsten textsauber und aus einem Nichtraucherhaushalt. Dieses Exemplar stammt aus der Bibliothek von Walter W. Müller, Professor für Semitistik an der Philipps-Universität Marburg. // Original hardcover in a dust jacket. Dust jacket slightly rubbed and faded in the spine area, binding slightly bumped at the top and bottom of the spine, Book block top slightly foxed, otherwise it is a good copy with only slight signs of wear. Large dedication from the author to the previous owner on the front and back endpapers, otherwise text clean. Book from a non smoking environment. Sprache: Englisch Original-Pappband mit Schutzumschlag.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Second printing. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. An excellent copy, gently worn; Pages free of markings; Jacket moderately edge-worn, now housed in protective mylar; Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed and inscribed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. Peter Edwards (illustrator). First edition. A well-illustrated popular account of Wendell's travels and archeological expeditions in Oman and Dhufar. pp. xiii, 313, 24 ill., 5 maps. Not price-clipped 42s in a near fine dust-jacket. Very light spotting to the textblock. First edition inscribed by the author. 5¾" - 9". Inscribed by author. book.

FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo. (21.5 x 13.5 cm). pp.xiii+319. Publisher's original pale blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in the dust-jacket designed by Peter Edwards. Inscribed on half-title: " To W.T. Clark with best salaams from Wendell". 24 b/w plates and 5 maps. Generally a very good copy. "The peninsula of Arabia, with its literary associations, its strange customs and taboos, its relics of an ancient civilisation that exerted a far-reaching influence on the Classical World, has always exercised a fascination over the minds of Western travellers and writers. Oman, that area to the extreme south-east of the peninsula, necessarily partakes of the character of the rest of Arabia, but has outstanding features of its own. Dr. Wendell Phillips, archaeologist and oilman, has travelled as extensively in Oman as any living explorer, and from 1949 until the present day has led a series of pioneer expeditions which have produced important scientific results. In the present book he writes of his adventures in Oman. His travels took him from Muscat in the East 'Hellish Muscat' it has been called on account of its fierce heat-along the fertile date-growing Batinah coast, into the desert, the home of the nomadic Bedouin tribes, across rocky mountain ranges, to Sohar, Salalah and other cities -through country lush and green, desert scrubland, dusty villages, modern towns and prehistoric sites. All these travels and his excavation of the ruins of earlier civilisations he graphically describes, and also studies and analyses the problems current in Oman today: marriage customs, divorce, slavery, the laws of hospitality, the status of women, religion, the position of Christian missions, education, and the many diseases to which the people are subject, and the traditional and modern medical treatment accorded to them. Unknown Oman is a vividly-written and valuable account often amusing, always fascinating of the experiences of an exceptionally well-informed enquirer in a land that is, as yet, little known to the Western world.".