[BELL, Gertrude].

The Arab War.

Name: The Arab War.
Brand: [BELL, Gertrude].
SKU: 121764
Price: 750.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

Confidential information for General Headquarters from Gertrude Bell, being dispatches reprinted from the secret "Arab Bulletin".

Stock Code 121764

London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1940.

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Scarce work publishing for the first time several articles Gertrude Bell wrote for the Arab Bureau during the First World War. Issued 14 years after her death, this collection of reports shed new light on Iraq's neighbours (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, etc.) and the history of relations between the two. Perhaps the most interesting article is the description of Ibn Saud in 1917, during his rise in power and before the recapture of Mecca.

The articles are: I. The basis of government in Turkish Arabia. II. Note on the tribal authority of the Sheikhs of Muhammerah and Kuweit in the occupied territories. III. The rebellion against the Sultan of Muscat. IV. Ibn Saud. V. Tribal fights in the Shamiyah. VI. Ismail Bey. VII. The situation in Hail.

First edition, limited to 500 copies, this number 301; 4to (25.5 x 19.5 cm); original emerald quarter-morocco, cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, bottom corner a little bumped, spine a little faded, a little spotted, bookplate to pastedown, a very good copy; 50, [2] pp.

Provenance

Provenance: A. Cheney Bolton (bookplate).

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