Shelfmark
Id6.5.03 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Id6.4.27 (Copy 2)
Author
Title
Arabian sands / Wilfred Thesiger.
Edition
[1st ed.]
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Longmans, 1959.
Physical description
xvi, 326, [2] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. (maps) ; 23 cm. + [1] fold. map (58 x 35 cm.)
Note
Last two pages are blank.
Note
Folded map printed in red and black in pocket inside back cover.
Note
[Copy 1] Publisher's red cloth; spine lettered in black and gold.
Note
[Copy 2] Publisher's light cream 20th century cloth binding; title stamped in gold, and author and publisher stamped in black on spine.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Printed bookseller's label inside front cover: Claude Gill Books, 485 Oxford Street, London, W.1.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Presentation copy with ms. inscription from Wilfred Thesiger to Val ffrench Blake, and two loose ALS from Thesiger, to Val ffrench Blake and to Anthony ffrench Blake; ms. notes by Val ffrench Blake on end leaf; memorial service booklet for Thesiger (Nov. 7th 2003); TLS from Michael Meredith to Colonel ffrench Blake (Nov. 14th 2003).
Binding
[Copy 1] Housed in black leather cloth box with gilt lettering and fillets; with original full colour dust-jacket.
Binding
[Copy 2] With full-colour, illustrated dust-jacket.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] Ms. note in pencil on front free-endpaper: First edition £50.
Subject
Arabian Peninsula Description and travel.
Genre/Form
Travel literature.
Added entry--name
Longman publisher.
Added entry--name
Claude Gill Books bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B40513