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Behind an Eastern veil.

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Behind an Eastern veil.

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Stock Code 108379

Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1894

The Peter Hopkirk copy. A fine copy, inscribed by the author, with illustrious provenance. Wills was a medical officer with the British (India) Telegraph Department in Persia and travelled widely with the Goldsmid mission. A well respected writer, the present work is unusual in taking the form of a quasi-novel to explore the life of ladies in the Persian upper class.

First edition; 8vo, inscribed presentation copy from the author, x, 376, [1] pp., original blue pictorial cloth gilt, a fine copy.

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Our Bookshop and Gallery can be found in the heart of Mayfair at 106 New Bond Street, where most of our stock is available to view and on public display.

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Behind an Eastern veil.

WILLS, C.J.

Stock code: 108379

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