Iraq in War Time.
Basrah, Government Press, [c.1919]
Philby had served with the British administration in Baghdad from 1915 to 1917 and then travelled through the interior of the Arabian peninsula as head of a mission to Ibn Saud. This is probably the first publication concerning Philby's mission to Ibn Saud in Riyadh in 1917. He completed a great tour of the Nejd in nine months, covering some 4000 kilometres. He divided the book into four sections of photographs: Groups and Portraits, Local Events, Views and A Tour through Central Arabia. He included a photograph of himself surrounded by Bedouins.
Second edition. Small Folio, (25.7 x 34.4 cm); unpaginated, with more 200 photographic illustrations, captioned in English and Arabic; publisher's brown cloth gilt, neatly rebacked, a little discolouration to covers, a very good copy.
Badr El-Hage, pp86-115.
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