Lot 610
  • 610

Hay, William Rupert

Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
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Description

  • Two Years in Kurdistan. Experiences of a Political Officer 1918-1920. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1921
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (215 x 140mm.), xii, 384pp., 2 maps, 1 folding, 24 photographic illustrations on 16 plates, original light brown cloth, dust-jacket

An important work written while Hay was serving in the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia ''always in more or less remote parts of the country'' (p.1).

Literature

Ghani p.171-2; Wilson p.93

Condition

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