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PHILBY, Harry St. John B.

A Pilgrim in Arabia.

A Pilgrim in Arabia.

Stock Code 121423

London, Robert Hale Ltd, 1946

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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.

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