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First trade edition of A Pilgrim in Arabia by Harry St John Philby, the account of Philby's Hajj in 1930, in the scarce dust-jacket.
First trade edition of A Pilgrim in Arabia by Harry St John Philby, the account of Philby's Hajj in 1930, in the scarce dust-jacket.
First trade edition of A Pilgrim in Arabia by Harry St John Philby, the account of Philby's Hajj in 1930, in the scarce dust-jacket.
First trade edition of A Pilgrim in Arabia by Harry St John Philby, the account of Philby's Hajj in 1930, in the scarce dust-jacket.

PHILBY, Harry St. John B.

A Pilgrim in Arabia.

London, Robert Hale Ltd, 1946.

$510.00
$510.00

A Pilgrim in Arabia.

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After Philby converted to Islam in 1930 and made the Hajj in 1931, this work being a series of essays concerning both Mecca and Medina as well as Riyadh. Scarce in the dust-jacket.

First trade edition; 8vo (22.5 x 15 cm); frontispiece portrait of the author, 23 double-sided photographic plates containing nearly 100 photographs, discreet library stamp to front endpaper; publisher's original red cloth, gilt vignette to upper board and gilt lettering to spine, original dust-jacket a little frayed with minor loss to head, a very good copy; 198pp.

Stock code 121423

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First trade edition of A Pilgrim in Arabia by Harry St John Philby, the account of Philby's Hajj in 1930, in the scarce dust-jacket.

A Pilgrim in Arabia.

$510.00
$510.00

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