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First edition of Black Tents of Arabia by Carl Raswan, an important account of Bedouin life in northern Arabia.
First edition of Black Tents of Arabia by Carl Raswan, an important account of Bedouin life in northern Arabia.
First edition of Black Tents of Arabia by Carl Raswan, an important account of Bedouin life in northern Arabia.
First edition of Black Tents of Arabia by Carl Raswan, an important account of Bedouin life in northern Arabia.

RASWAN, Carl R.

Black Tents of Arabia.

London, Hutchinson & Co., 1935.

$344.00
$344.00

Black Tents of Arabia.

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Raswan was one of a few who had managed to penetrate the unexplored desert of Northern Arabia and live with the warlike Bedouins, not as a foreigner, but as one marked by the rite of blood-brotherhood with their Sheikhs. Much on Arabian horses, falconry, and hunting.

First edition; 8vo (23.5 x 16.5 cm); with numerous photos, many of horses, greyhounds and falcons, discreet library stamp to front endpaper; publisher's original black cloth, white lettering to upper board and spines, spine a little rubbed, very good copy; 280 pp.

Stock code 121427

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First edition of Black Tents of Arabia by Carl Raswan, an important account of Bedouin life in northern Arabia.

Black Tents of Arabia.

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