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Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Hard cover with dust jacket. Please be aware that this copy has highlighting and/or text notations!! Minor cover and page wear. Buy with confidence. 100% satisfaction guaranteed!! Shipped each business day.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Original colour illustrated wraps 22x28cm. Printed in Beirut by the Middle East Export Press. 32pp with colour and b/w photos and drawings. Near fine. The cover story is a photo essay on modern Arab haute couture. This showcases women's clothing adapted from the Bedouin abaya, the North African kaftan, etc, and how the designs were obtained by designers including Asseily, Edde, al-Khazen, al-Khoury, and Moua'wad. Other content includes a study of reptilian wildlife in Najd; mirages; examples of superstition in the Arab world and elsewhere; Umayyad desert retreats; and the 5th installment from Wallace Stegner's "Discovery! The Story of Aramco Then" with illustrations by Donald Thompson. Photographers include Aramco's own Burnett Moody and Thomas F. Walters. Burnett H. Moody; Thomas F. Walters; et al (illustratore).…