CHEESMAN, Major R.E.
With a foreword by Major-General Sir Percy Z. Cox.
Stock Code 113929
London, Macmillan, 1926
'[A] vivid, unvarnished record of desert travel, pursued often under the most trying circumstances' (Major-General Sir Percy Cox, in his foreword).
First edition; 8vo, xx, 447 pp., frontispiece, 3 maps (one of these folding), 66 plates; original sage green cloth gilt, gilt illustration to upper cover, top edge gilt, a fine copy.
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