bertram thomas foreword lawrence (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 304 pp. including index, plus illustrations and a large fold-out map. With a Foreword by T. E. Lawrence. The boards are bowed. Previous owner's name is written on the front free endpaper. There are spots of foxing, mainly on the prelims and postlims. In a sound binding with hinges intact. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover with gilt lettered front board, no dust jacket, in very good condition for its age. Published in February, 1932 and reprinted twice in March, 1932. Includes plates and fold out map (in very good condition). Boards are sunned, particularly the spine. Edges and corners are bumped and rubbed. Page block is lightly blemished and foxed. Light foxing also noted on the pastedowns, endpapers and a few of the pages, which are otherwise clear, and binding is sound. LW. Used.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. 1st UK Edition. Appendix by Sir Arthur Keith, hinges weak, illustrated with b/w photos, 2 maps plus folding maps at end, unmarked, 397pp, VG/--. Book.

Cloth. Condizione: Good. First reprint. [First reprint, in the same year as the first edition]. Illustrated, large octavo, pp xxx, 397. edges untrimmed, a large coloured folding map at the rear, a slight blemish from the front endpaper through to the frontispiece, otherwise very clean internally, brown cloth slightly faded marked and worn the spine a little more faded and slightly marked.

Condizione: Very Good. Second impression. Hardback. Large octavo. xxix, 397pp. Original covers slightly worn and faded, endpaper slightly creased, very occasional light foxing, otherwise complete, very good indeed. No jacket.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First American Edition. British explorer crosses the 600-mile stretch of desert called the Rub' al Khali, or 'empty quarter' in 1931; finds it not empty. With a foreword lament the passing of the 'old Arabists' by Lawrence; anthropometric appendix on the "Racial characters of the Southern Arabs" by Keith, zoological appendix by W. T. Calman. First American edition (first printing, with 'A' on copyright page), hardcover in jacket as pictured. Light wear to book, corners lightly bumped, lower edge faded; jacket loose & tattered, with tears, creases, chips, holes, scuffs, some internal tape mends - not archival, but non-yellowing. Text clean; xxix, [3], 397 pages; maps (one large folding, in color), b/w plates, figures, all present as called for. Size: Large Octavo.

First edition; 8vo (24 x 17 cm); 81 photographic illustrations, 3 maps, of which 1 folding, reinforced repairs to folds of large map; full tan calf, gilt ruled boards, gilt spine in six compartments, top edge gilt, fine copy; xxix, 397 pp. A narrative of one of the first recorded accounts of the crossing of the Rub al Khali by camel, the great "Empty Quarter", including researches carried out in the Dhofar province. He was aided by Bedouin of the Rashid tribe and he describes the desert, its peoples, and wildlife in tender detail. Bertram Thomas (1892-1950) served in Iraq and Jordan before being Wazir to Taimur bin Feisal, the Sultan of Oman, between 1925 and 1932.