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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. …